Jon Groom
Jon Groom (born 1953 in Powys , Wales ) is a Welsh painter and artist .
Life
Jon Groom was born in Powys, Wales in 1953. After graduating from high school, Groom went to Cardiff College of Art to study sculpture and later painting. In 1976 Groom was accepted into the Postgraduate Department of the Chelsea School of Art in London, where he studied under the direction of Prof. Ian Stephenson. Groom came into contact with many visual artists of the time, the most important being Sean Scully . Groom was honored for his painting at the Gloucestershire College of Art in 1977 . Later that year he moved to New York, where he was hired to do a mural for a New Jersey law firm . He named this first wall painting by Jon Groom New-arc-New Jersey .
On his return to London he exhibited his Vertical Wall-Bound Arcs 1978–79 in the newly opened Nicola Jacobs Gallery , a series of eight pictures made of acrylic varnish on canvas. That same year, Groom was selected as the youngest member of the traveling exhibition “ The British Art Show ”. In 1980 he won the Greater London Arts Award. He also became a lecturer in painting and taught at Cardiff College of Art, Hornsey College of Art, St. Martin's in London and Portsmouth Polytechnic. In 1985 Jon Groom opened his first solo exhibition at the Ruth Siegel Gallery in New York. That same year, Groom's work was added to The Discovery of the Lake District exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Around 1986 Groom moved to Italy to study Renaissance painting. After a year in Umbria , he moved to a villa in Feldafing near Munich as a guest of the cultural department . From 1978 to 1990 Groom alternated between New York and Munich.
In 1990 Groom was invited to Lincoln , England to participate in the exhibition The Journey: A Search for the Role of Contemporary Art in Religious and Spiritual Life . This included working on the five-year project at Evidence-Lincoln Cathedral. After returning to his studio in Munich, Groom developed the series The Evidence Paintings , which were exhibited in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich in 1994. The year ended in Reutlingen at the Foundation for Concrete Art. Together with Manfred Wandel and Gabriele Kubler he presented the Arena Wallpaintings, a fresco on four walls. In 1995 Groom moved to Mexico where he rented Larry River's studio in Zihuata Nejo.
In 1997 Groom was an exhibiting artist at the Luis Barragán Museum in Mexico. Groom returned to Munich to work with Andreas Horlitz and Steven Scott on a mural for the Central Institute for Art History. In 1998 work began on a series of paintings later called Cycles of the Day. He toured Australia, New York and Los Angeles, returned to Europe and rented a studio in Liguria, Italy. After a doctor's visit to Los Angeles, who introduced him to the writings of J. Krishnamurti, his interest in the spirituality of the Far East began. He started practicing yoga and studied tantra. In this productive phase he created 300 works within three years.
Groom moved back to Munich after a long stopover in Copenhagen. In 2003 he was invited to the Neue Kunstverein in Aschaffenburg . In the exhibition The Mindfulness of the Moment , five artists were asked to present experimental works. Groom showed Face of the Buddha , his first large-format picture on paper. It contained 216 hand-made papers, painted with watercolor, that were pinned directly to the wall. In 2003 Groom moved to a wing area of a castle in Mariakirchen near Arnstorf. Inspired by the environment, he created watercolor pictures and paintings that are composed of several papers, including the work The Eight Seasons . During this time Jon Groom worked in Hanau , among other places , where he completed many large-format pictures. Some of them can be found in the Hanau Congress Center and in the entrance area of the Degussa Bank there. His main place of work for the past two years has been on Ismaninger Strasse in Munich. In 2006 he married the hotel manager Dorna Hekmat in India.
Public collections (selection)
- Arts Council of Great Britain, London
- Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich
- Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich
- Castle Museum Norwich
- Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
- Chemical Bank, London and New York
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
- Congress Park Hanau / Frankfurt
- Contemporary Arts Society, London
- Degussa Bank, Frankfurt
- Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
- General Electric, Germany
- Gerling Group, Cologne and Stuttgart
- HypoVereinsbank, Munich
- Kunstforening Trondheim, Norway
- Lindner AG, Germany
- MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Mcloy, Milbank, Tweed, New York
- National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
- Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
- Prudential Insurance Company, New York
- NM Rothschild & Sons (CI) Limited, London
- Municipal gallery, Ingolstadt
- Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Municipal art gallery, Mannheim
- Foundation for Concrete Art, Reutlingen
- Uniplan International, Cologne
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1978: Paintings, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
- 1979: Vertical Wall-Bound Arcs, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
- 1981: Salutations, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
- 1982: Paintings and Wallpainting, Oriel Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Cardiff, Wales
- 1983: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
- 1983: Calling, Clearing, Soprano, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
- 1985: Painting on Wood and Paperworks, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York
- 1986: New Paintings, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
- 1998: Panel Paintings and Paintings on Copper, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan
- 1991: New Paintings, Tanit Gallery, Munich
- 1992: The Powys Paintings, Gebauer & Günther Gallery, Berlin
- 1994: Evidence Paintings, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
- 1997: Paintings, Drawings and Wall Works: Hommage to Luis Barragán, Casa Museo Luis Barragán, Mexico City
- 1999: Reference Paintings 1999, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan
- 2000: New Paintings and Installation, Galerie Paal, Munich
- 2003: Paintings & Watercolors, Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin
- 2004: Jon Groom and Sean Scully, 422 Gmunden (publication)
- 2004: Jon Groom Paintings, Galerie König, Hanau / Frankfurt
- 2005: Painting Reveals, New Paintings and Watercolors, Catholic Academy, Munich
- 2006: Between the Light, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
- 2006: Sotto la luce, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan
- 2007: Notes from India, Aquarelles, Galerie Reygers, Munich
- 2008: Between the Light Paintings, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf
- 2009: A Luminous Night's Journey, Städtisches Museum Engen + Galerie
- 2010: Oil Paintings & Watercolors, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen
- 2011: New Oil Paintings and Drawings, Schaltwerk Kunst, Hamburg
literature
- Robert C. Morgan, Beate Reifenscheid, Wilhelm Warning: Between the light , ISBN 978-3-7913-3805-7
- Velten Wagner: A luminous night's journey , Catalog Engen, Verlag Dominique GmbH, ISBN 978-3-9813186-0-9
- Galleri Weinberger, Robert C. Morgan: Oil paintings & watercolors , Verlag Dominique GmbH, ISBN 978-3-9813186-2-3
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groom, Jon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Welsh painter and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Powys , Wales |