John Gathercole
Exhasperation, 2022 - Oil on canvas
100 x 50 cm - £650.00
John Gathercole is firstly a painter, a figure painter.
He uses oil paint in a vibrant, energetic, narrative and visceral manner.
The work is pure figure versus figurative, mental versus emotional.
They ask the viewer to join dismembered narrative connections and consider the image as a whole, leaving them questioning and uneasy.
They deal with personal issues of loss, longing, need, comfort and solace in an increasingly unstable society.
John's excitement for painting is evident throughout his work, particularly in the figure.
Influenced by Carl Jung, Gestalt theories, and 1960s images and film, the works encompass an intelligent and expressive abstract of someone trying to make sense of his life.
100 x 50 cm - £650.00
John Gathercole is firstly a painter, a figure painter.
He uses oil paint in a vibrant, energetic, narrative and visceral manner.
The work is pure figure versus figurative, mental versus emotional.
They ask the viewer to join dismembered narrative connections and consider the image as a whole, leaving them questioning and uneasy.
They deal with personal issues of loss, longing, need, comfort and solace in an increasingly unstable society.
John's excitement for painting is evident throughout his work, particularly in the figure.
Influenced by Carl Jung, Gestalt theories, and 1960s images and film, the works encompass an intelligent and expressive abstract of someone trying to make sense of his life.
John Gathercole (b. 1968) is a painter, curator and gallerist from London.
He achieved his BA at U.E.L. and his MA at London Met, both in fine art and studied life drawing at le Académie de la Grande Chaumière Paris.
John has exhibited and sold worldwide, including both Tate Modern and Britain. He first found recognition as the founder of The Kreative Union of Neo-Aesthetic Terrorists (the Kuntists), an anti-art collective, which has recently progressed into being one-half of the Sons of Incoherence art duo.
He has managed three galleries in East London and Essex, run multiple workshops for the Royal Opera House and Thameside Theatre and is the creator of the Paint Off competitions (which raises money for charities).
Currently, John curates with Stash Gallery and has returned to his first love of painting the figure.
He achieved his BA at U.E.L. and his MA at London Met, both in fine art and studied life drawing at le Académie de la Grande Chaumière Paris.
John has exhibited and sold worldwide, including both Tate Modern and Britain. He first found recognition as the founder of The Kreative Union of Neo-Aesthetic Terrorists (the Kuntists), an anti-art collective, which has recently progressed into being one-half of the Sons of Incoherence art duo.
He has managed three galleries in East London and Essex, run multiple workshops for the Royal Opera House and Thameside Theatre and is the creator of the Paint Off competitions (which raises money for charities).
Currently, John curates with Stash Gallery and has returned to his first love of painting the figure.