SMITH
Jonathan (Born 1958)
“West Side of Lewis” (Outer Hebrides)
Oil
on Canvas. Signed. 50cm x 50cm IMAGE
“High
Horizon”
Oil
on Board. Signed. 25cm x 25cm IMAGE
“Morning
on the Shore”
Oil
on Board. Signed. 25cm x 25cm IMAGE
“New
Paint”
Oil
on Board. Signed. 25cm x 25cm IMAGE
“Inlet”
Oil
on Canvas Signed. 70cm x 70cm IMAGE
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Jonathan
Smith was born in 1958 in Aberdeen. He went to school in Aberdeen
and also on the Island of Lewis in the Hebrides. In 1976 he returned to Aberdeen
to study painting at Grays School of Art where he won the Alexander Barker Prize in 1979. From 1980 to 1987 he worked as a Musician and
Technical Illustrator in London. In 1988 he went to East Sussex where he
worked as an Art Teacher until 1996 and since then he has worked as the Visual
Arts Co-ordinator at Varndean College in Brighton. He has exhibited at the Royal Academy, and in Galleries in England and Scotland. His paintings develop from his time spent in the Outer Hebrides, from
visits to Venice and Florence, or from drawings made in the corners of cornfields and
scrapyards in the Sussex Weald. Working through variations on themes, trying to
balance spontaneous gesture with the need for secure compositional structures,
he distils his experiences, using layers of translucent and opaque colour and a
range of expressive marks and gestures. Work by Jonathan Smith is in the
collections of East Sussex County Council Arts and Museum Service; Seaford Head
Community College, Seaford, East Sussex;
Fastrak Consulting, Brighton and in private collections in Britain and
abroad.
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