Jeremy Annear (b.1959)

Catalogue Note

Jeremy Annear (b. 1949) is a European Modernist painter in the vein of great
artists such as Paul Klee, Wasilly Kansinsky, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque.  As a young artist working in Devon, he was became familiar
with the work of the St Ives group, and was profoundly influenced by the art
of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton,Terry Frost.

Like Klee and Kandinsky, Annear's work explores the relationship and synchronicity of the
visual arts with music and poetry.  A line of music or poetry has a certain
rhythm similar to the cut, meander or thrust of the lines in one of Annear's
paintings.  The influence of Braque and Picasso may be seen in Annear's
creation of abstracted still lives and compositions of the forms and
feelings of his beloved Cornish coastline. The shapes, colours and forms of
his work are built up through layer after layer of paint and thereby gain a
delightful and intriguing depth and atmosphere.