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Jenny Eadon

'Prufrock'

'Prufrock'

Original
Oil on canvas
76cm x 76cm

Introduction

 

     Some of the paintings try to emulate the complicated processes involved in both cultural shifts and movements of peoples, and  individual  thought and memory. Through a layering of colour and line,  each painting builds a strata of connections, crossings and re-crossings - subsequent layers influenced or changed by traces underneath – echoing the constantly shifting movement of alliances, loyalties, knowledge, belief systems and  skills.   What has gone before marking what comes after.

 

     Other paintings show the impressions and memories associated with specific places visited, ordering   the jumbled  mosaic of recollections by  putting down the defining connotations of a place and expressing the  particular colours,  shapes,  mood and sensations experienced there.

 

     Work also comes from an inner landscape of visual images invoked by reading poetry.  The essence of the words,  filtered through the artist, seek to find a metaphoric equivalent on the canvas  within the components of  form,  colour and space.

 

     The change from making abstract sculpture to abstract painting took place while living in San Francisco for six months  about five years ago.

 

Statement

The paintings are all oil on canvas and most are 76cm x 76cm, but the most recent ones are 122cm x 122cm.

     The paintings try to emulate the complicated processes involved in thought and memory through a  rich layering of colour and line.   Each painting builds a strata of connections, crossings and re-crossings, subsequent layers are influenced or changed by traces underneath -  what has gone before marking what comes after.

     Some paintings show the impressions and memories associated with specific places visited, ordering   the jumbled  mosaic of recollections by  putting down the defining connotations of a place and expressing the  particular colours,  shapes,  mood and sensations experienced there. 

     Other work comes from an inner landscape of visual images invoked by reading poetry.  The essence of the words,  filtered through the artist, seek to find a metaphoric equivalent on the canvas  within the components of  form,  colour and space. 

For those familiar with my sculpture, the change to abstract painting took place while living in San Francisco for six months – probably influenced by the wonderful abstract expressionist work originating there.

2011.

 

Biography

1994/95 Postgraduate Diploma, Anglia Ruskin University
1978/82 BA Hons. Fine Art, University of Reading
1977/78 Amersham College of Art, Buckinghamshire
1976/77 Berkshire College of Art, Maidenhead


 

Training and Other Activities

Advanced Abstract Painting MA, Academy of Art, San Francisco, I semester
Painting used for cover of book of poems by Patricia Clark, Michigan University Press
Founder of Cambridge Artworks Studios, artist run studios, gallery/workshop
Organiser of monthly slide and lecture series at Cambridge Artworks
Henry Moore Sculpture Studio, London, sculpture course.
Public Art Training programme run by Commissions East Eastern Arts.
Selector for Peterborough Open exhibition 1996 & 1997
Participant in NVQ seminar for Arts & Entertainment Training Council.
Travel and study visits to Paris, Turkey, Canada, USA, India, Morocco, Peru, Australia and China.

My first art practice was at Open Hand Studios in Reading, exhibiting sculpture widely, but also paintings, prints and drawings.Then, on moving to Cambridge, taking a studio at Wysing Arts while initiating the setting up of Cambridge Artwork Studios for artists in the city. This has exhibition and workshop facilities, and is still thriving. The current studio is in beautiful countryside in north Oxfordshire.

I worked mainly as a sculptor until five years ago when, after living in San Francisco for six months, I concentrated on oil painting.

I have taught many Adult Education classes, workshops and summer schools and done numerous projects with schools, going in as an Artist in Residence.