Jay Crowther

Biography

Jay Crowther is a painter of everyday life, he paints portraits of his friends,shoes, chairs, his dog, he is influenced by the cool light of the uk and his palette is sensitively considered creating beautifully crafted images.

He employs a variety of 'fast' and 'slow' styles which represent the myiad ways of looking. The preparation of the surface he is to be working on is important , he starts with using an acylic primer applied in a particular way to establish a surface.

Subsequently a coloured ground is added, mixed from thinned oil paint, often areas of unpainted canvas are incorporated in to the composition. He recently has been painting on found wood panels which already have history ingrained in them.

Jay has shown at the National Portrait Gallery and teaches drawing in his village of Bursledon on the Hamble river Hampshire.

Selected Exibitions

Ingo Fincke, London 2007
AAF West, Art *. Bristol 2007
Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells 2007
AAF Autumn,Ingo Fincke, Art*, London 2006
National Portrait Gallery, Mystery Portrait Gala 150th Anniversary 2006
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Art *, New York USA, 2005
Maltby Gallery, Winchester, 2005
A Gallery, Wimbledon, 2005
Flash Art Islington, 2004
Bp Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2004
Quod Art , Brighton, 2004
Not The Turner Prize, Mall Galleries, London, 2003
Thomas Henry Fine Art, Nantuckett, USA 2003, 2004
Ingo Fincke 2002 -2007
Start Gallery 2001,2002
Affordable Art Fair, Art*, London 1999-2001
Sussex Open, Brighton 1998