JOHN BALDWIN. 12th June - 24th July

ABSTRACT PAINTINGS AND CERAMICS

Exhibiting in the Thomas Storey Room from 12th June - 24th July 2012

Lancashire born artist John Baldwin is now exhibiting his paintings and ceramics at The Storey. This wonderful collection of colourful splash paintings are the outcome of John's realisation that commercially available artist's paints were inadequate for his needs, so he began to develop his own acrylic paints and gels which he's refined over the years to produce the characteristic striped paints he now uses. This move away from traditional oil paints follows in the footsteps of the American Abstract Expressionists of the 1950's and 1960's, known for their use of commercially produced household gloss and matt paints.

John attended Art College in the 1960's and during this period he travelled to the U.S. where he experienced the Abstract Expressionist Art movement first-hand, before making his way with a career in industry and teaching. He returned to painting around 1990, exhibiting his work nationally and internationally including London and Pamplona, later becoming instrumental in the campaign to preserve Kurt Schwitter's Mertz Barn in the Lake District.

John continues to work full time as an artist and has recently been invited to lecture on Western Art at the prestigious Jiao Tong University, Shanghai and will be exhibiting a selection of his paintings from the 1970's in London later this year.

He now lives in Silverdale and has recently relocated his studio to new premises in Lancaster.

 

 

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