This new exhibition at The White Room gallery is an opportunity to view John Eaves at his very
best. The show will feature both early and previously unseen work as well as new oil paintings
and collages from 2010.

Available Original Work








John Eaves is one of this country's most vibrant abstract artists and is a master of colour and
aesthetics. Since his retrospective at The Victoria Art Gallery in 2008, John has continued to
explore colour, always drawing on inspiration form his love of jazz and travel. Earlier this year
in collaboration with another Bath based artist Kathryn Williams, Eaves completed a trio of large
paintings/collages for Sir Terence Conran's new Hotel Martinhal in Portugal.



Artist Biography

John Eaves trained at the Bath Academy of Art between 1949 and 1952, where his teachers included
William Scott and Peter Potworowski, both of who bought a refreshingly European perspective to their
classes. John went on to work as a Course Director for part-time courses in the visual arts at Bath
College of Higher Education between 1958 and 1985.

He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Germany, England and the United States, and his
work is represented in eleven public collections including Bristol City Art Gallery and the Arts
Council Collection.

In 1966 John was awarded the Winston Churchill Trust Fellowship to travel and work in New Mexico. A
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship enabled him to research the German painter Emil Nolde and complete a
thematic series of paintings in North Germany between 1986 and 1987. In 1994 he received a grant
from South West Arts to tour Stonehenge and make drawings and associated performances.

Commenting on his most recent work he says: "I now make images that run parallel to nature rather
than rely on direct observations or reminiscences. Echos and sonorities of landscape will
inevitably persist".