|
John Bolam - (Click on Picture for a larger image)
John Bolam is seen by many as following in the path of the neo-Romantics, most notably Piper and Sutherland, but his imagery subsequently evolved independently. Bolam was also strongly influenced by French Artists such as Braque and Degas as well as the English landscape, especially the Chilterns. Painter, designer and teacher, John Bolam was born in Amersham Buckinghamshire. He studied furniture design at High Wycombe School of Art and painting at Hornsey School of Art. He subsequently became a member of the Great Bardfield group of artists (named after the village in Cambridgeshire where many of the members settled. Close friends and colleagues from that time included Michael Rotherstein, Edward Bowden, John Aldridge and Edward Middleditch. From 1970 to 1983 John Bolam was Head of the School of Art in Cambridge. He exhibited at the AIA Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Arts Council Gallery, Leicester Galleries and the New Art Centre (where he held a one-man show). The public collection of John Bolam’s work is held at the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden but his work also features in many important private art collections including those of Rank Zerox, Barclays Bank and Touche Ross.
Early Morning |
|
|
John Bolam has been described as "an imaginative abstractionist who leaves nothing to chance". (Neville Wallace 1959)
|
|
