- John Bolam
John Bolam (born 1922) is generally rated as one of Britain’s most pre-eminent post war
artists . In major galleries, his pictures sell for anything from around £1,000 to £1,500.Background
John Bolam was born in 1922 in
Amersham ,Buckinghamshire . He originally studied painting atHornsey School of Art andfurniture design at High Wycombe School of Art. He subsequently became a member of the Great Bardfield group of artists (named after the village inEssex where many of the members settled). Close friends and colleagues from that time includedMichael Rotherstein ,Edward Bawden ,John Aldridge andEdward Middleditch . From 1970 to 1983 Bolam was Head of the School of Art at Cambridge College of Art and Technology.Work
John Bolam is seen by many as following in the path of the neo-Romantics, most notably
Piper andSutherland , 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 theChilterns .Exhibitions of Bolam’s work have been held at AIA Galleries,
Whitechapel Art Gallery , Arts Council Gallery, the Leicester Galleries and the New Art Centre (where he held a one man show).The major 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 Xerox, Barclays Bank and Touche Ross.References
* Martin Salisbury, "Artists at the Fry", Ruskin Press, Cambridge, 2003, pp 36-37
External links
* [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=56BB03F31CF3AB54 John Bolam's "Flowers before the landscape"]
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