Edward Jeavons was born in the West Midlands and educated at Leeds Beckett University (BA Hons in Fine Art) and Chelsea College of Art (MA in Fine Art).

He has exhibited in recent group and solo shows across the UK such as New Art Gallery Walsall, The West Midlands Open (2022) The Lido Stores Margate, The Lido Open (2021) The Old Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London. ‘Nou Wave I’ (2019), Museum in the Park, Stroud, ‘Material Flow’ (2019) Guggleton Art Gallery, Dorset, ‘Go Figure’ (2019). He has been featured in a book on British abstract painting entitled ‘The State of Art’ published by BareHill Publishing, and was a recipient of an Arts Council England Individual Artist Award.

A few thoughts based purely on biased opinions…

During my time in education, a well-known critic came to my studio and described my paintings as ‘paintings on holiday’ which looked like they ‘could jump off the wall and kick you down the stairs’. He might have meant all this as an insult but I took it as a compliment. Delusion is often the best form of self-protection!

Paintings shouldn’t be passive objects that hang limply on the wall and go well with the sofa. They should command attention and have a physical and emotional presence in the same way that a person does. They should also be believable in their own right without having to be a representation or illustration of something else.