JOHN BOLAM (Born 1922)
"Continuation"
Oil Painting on Board.
20" x 16". From the Artist's
Studio Collection IMAGE
“Moonlit Garden”
Original Oil Painting on
Board. Signed with Initials. 20” x 16”
From the Artist’s
Studio Collection IMAGE
“Pembroke Coast”
Gouache. 14 5/8” x 19 5/8”
(372 x 500mm)
Signed with monogram and
dated ‘59
Provenance – the Artist’s
Studio Collection 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.
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