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 The Derby Print Open, Banks Mill Studios (2024) The West Midlands Open, New Art Gallery, Walsall (2022) The Lido Open, Lido Stores, Margate (2021) ‘Nou Wave I’ The Old Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London (2019), ‘Material Flow’ (2019) Museum in the Park, Stroud, ‘Go Figure’ Guggleton Art Gallery, Dorset (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.

Statement

In my work I explore the idea of creating an abstract vocabulary that can express the emotion and atmosphere that is traditionally found in representational work. The work alludes to the real world without being an illustration of it. The materiality and tactile nature of the work encourages a feeling of connection between viewer and object. Recent work has seen me utilising elements of painted collage to break up and reconfigure an image, and to ‘open up’ unexpected spaces withing the painting. This fragmented view of reality and memory feels much more connected to the way in which I experience the world.