JOHN BOLAM (Born 1922)
"Continuation"
Oil Painting on Board.
20" x 16". From
the Artist's Studio Collection IMAGE
“Moonlit Garden”
Original Oil Painting on
Board. Signed with Initials. 20” x 16”
From the Artist’s Studio
Collection IMAGE
John Bolam is seen by many as following in the path of the
neo-Romantics, most notably Piper and Sutherland, 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 the Chilterns.
Painter, designer and teacher, John Bolam was born in Amersham
Buckinghamshire. He studied furniture
design at High Wycombe School of Art and painting at Hornsey School of
Art. He subsequently became a member of
the Great Bardfield group of artists (named after the village in Cambridgeshire
where many of the members settled. Close
friends and colleagues from that time included Michael Rotherstein, Edward
Bowden, John Aldridge and Edward Middleditch.
From 1970 to 1983 John Bolam was Head of the
