JOHN MOLE UK ART

STORY OF AN ARTIST

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After being passionately interested in art as a consumer for as long as I can remember, I decided several years ago to quit working as a teacher and to devote myself full-time to producing my own paintings and drawings. I was fortunate enough to be able to get one-on-one tuition with artist and teacher Alexander Damien in his Manchester studio, starting with tuition in drawing and subsequently moving onto painting with oils on canvas. I had been a keen amateur photographer for some time and was able to use my own photographs as the starting point for my artwork in many cases, something that I continue to do to this day.

After completing my studies with Alexander, I joined the Windmill Art Group where I found the discussions and exchange of ideas with local artists to be very helpful to my artistic development. Under the auspices of the art group I have contributed works to many local exhibitions in various art centres in my locality, and in March 2014 my drawing “Tommy” was short-listed for the summer exhibition at The Royal Academy. I also had a drawing accepted into a competitive open exhibition at the Atkinson Art Gallery in Southport, and a painting into one at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool, both of these being old established municipal art galleries.

I am intrigued by old black and white photographs which seem to me to express a moment frozen in time which their modern digital counterparts do not. Consequently, I have based a number of my paintings on old analogue photographs often applying extraneous colour and various types of distortions to the original image in an effort to arrive at something new and original. I also enjoy the challenge of producing accurate likenesses in portraits.

In April 2015 I was told that my entry for the BBC Little Painting Challenge had been selected from over 29000 submissions to be included in a national exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, which was held in May 2015. I have also had my paintings  Still Life with Bread, Fruit and Wine  and Lost in Thought  featured in Paint magazine, the national publication for the Society for All Artists. 

In January 2017 my painting, Beach Scene, Coronado, San Diego, was awarded a prize in the Garstang Open Art Exhibition and in 2018 My painting “Portrait of a Boy” won one of the Duchess of Hamilton awards in an exhibition in the Poldrate Arts Centre in Haddington.

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John Mole