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Jonathan Dean

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My art is inspired by a love of line, colour, rhythm and movement. I want my work to have the same kind of immediate impact that music can: on the senses, the imagination and the emotions. Although there is a figurative element behind many of my pictures, the final images can be quite abstract – I like exploring the borderline between what is real and imaginary, concrete and suggestive. A recurring theme in my work is that of release and breaking free from constraints: the expression of free-flowing untrammelled energy…

I began drawing cartoon books from an early age and was lucky, from the age of 10, to have my cartoons filmed at the Richard Williams Animation Studios in Soho. Then, however, a parallel interest in music and musical composition took over, and this is what I went on to study at Cambridge University, the Royal College of Music, and the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts in Canada. Writing and illustrating children’s books for my son gradually led me back to art: I studied watercolour with Sarah Christian at Morley College for four years, and then took a further four years of classes in life painting and mixed media with Denzil Forrester.
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Exhibitions
Made in Morley 2008, Morley Gallery, London, 2008
‘Gardens Images’, Queen’s Park Cafe, London, 2009
Made in Morley 2010, Morley Gallery, London, 2010
Brent Artists Resource Spring/Winter exhibitions, London, 2010
Opening exhibition, The Wise Owl Venue, London, 2012
Regeneration, Brent Artists Resource, London, 2013
‘Aqua-Reale’, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London, 2013
The Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Exhibition, Morley Gallery, London, 2013
‘A Year in Abstract’, Food For Thought Cafe, London, 2014
‘Crazy Skaters’, Food For Thought Cafe, London, 2015
Pure Painting, Brent Artists Resource, London, 2015
Black and White, Brent Artists Resource, London, 2015
Figure and Portrait, Brent Artists Resource, London, 2015
Made 2016, Morley Gallery, London, 2016
Life Line, The Landing Gallery, Morley College, London, 2016
‘Unlimited’, Espacio Gallery, London, 2018
‘Boundaries and beyond’, Espacio Gallery, London, 2019
‘Free up the Mind’, Espacio Gallery, London 2019
‘RGB’, Espacio Gallery, London 2020
‘Uplift’, Espacio Gallery London 2021
‘Crossed Paths’, Espacio Gallery, London 2021
Flux (2) Review: online exhibition, 2021
‘Transformations’, Espacio Gallery 2022

Psychedelic landscape (2022), pasted paper on A4 paper
Aquarium (2022), pasted paper on A3 paper
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, from Songs of Innocence and Experience (2022), pasted paper on A4 paper
Running down the valleys wild, from Songs of Innocence and Experience (2022), pasted paper on A4 paper
London 1, from Songs of Innocence and Experience (2022), pasted paper on A4 paper
Tyger, from Songs of Innocence and Experience (2022), pasted paper on A4 paper
Funkallero (2021), pasted paper on A1 paper
Theatrepiece (2021), pasted paper on paper, 45 x 40 cm
Pageant (2021), pasted paper on paper, 50 x 73 cm
Farmer (2021), pasted paper on paper, 16 x 22 cm
Off the scale (2021), mixed media on A1 paper
Early warning (2020), mixed media on A1 paper

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