John Meaker / Painting / Web

Abbotsbury Studio, Rodden Row, Abbotsbury, Dorset, DT3 4JL tel: 01305-871867
email: johnmrmeaker@btinternet.com

Please phone before visiting Abbotsbury Studio 01305 871867 or mob.07816 850107

Artist Narratives:
"Acteon is pursued by agents of his own curiosity.
Pan breathes music through the fingers of Syrinx.
Pinski Van Dog confronts intimidating angels then commits fraud against truth and beauty;
while students of art and culture-vultures, returning from the funfair, ride up and down on Jacobs ladder."

John Meaker is a prolific artist continuously drawing and working in several different painting mediums with figures, abstract dynamics and landscape. He has 25 years experience as teacher & mentor facilitating progress and change to the work of students & artists of all ages and stages, from beginners to accomplished artists.

He studied at Goldsmiths College and The Royal Academy Schools and in his own work reconciles their contradictory traditions.

Amongst some uniquely sensitive artists including Peter Greenham and Norman Blamey, J. M. was fortunate to have tutors themselves taught by a series of mainly British artists, Sickert, Tonks, Bomberg, Giacometti, Coldstream, Uglow and K. Vaughan, who in their teaching, theory and their own practices of work, represent a range of related modes of perception which develop the living and dynamic strands of late 20th century innovation and expression in drawing and painting.