About

Ed Jeavons is a UK-based painter. He studied Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University (BA Hons) and Chelsea College of Art (MA). Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at Stone Heritage Centre, Staffordshire (2025), The Derby Print Open at Banks Mill Studios (2025, 2024), The West Midlands Open at The New Art Gallery Walsall (2022), The Lido Open, Margate (2021) and Nou Wave I at The Old Biscuit Factory, London (2019). His work has been featured in The State of Art: Contemporary British Abstract Painting (BareHill Publishing).

Painting has affinities with archaeology. Working without a preconceived image, Jeavons builds surfaces through cycles of accumulation, disruption and removal. Layers are constructed and reworked until unexpected alignments of material, colour and mark begin to cohere. While abstract, the works evoke landscapes without describing specific places. Rather than illustrating narrative or emotion, the paintings construct spaces that feel alive, physical and ambiguous — asserting the value of touch, surface and raw matter.