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JOHN ARMSTRONG - PAINTER
John Armstrong, born September 1937, trained as a painter and teacher at art schools in Swindon, Walthamstow and Brighton . Taught art and crafts in schools, worked in museums in Hove and Lewes, and at the Exhibitions Unit, University of Brighton Gallery.
Exhibitions
New English Art Club, London, 1958
One Man Exhibition, Hove Museum of Art, 1975
Museum of Modern Religious Art, Ostend, Belgium, 1979
Liverpool Cathedral Congress, 1980
Bristol Cathedral, 1980
Chichester Centre of Arts Festival, 1981
One Man Exhibition, Hove Museum of Art, 1981
Westminster Cathedral, 1982 and 1998
Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, 1983 and 1984
Arundel Festival, and Brighton Polytechnic, 1984
Holy Trinity Church, Bath, and Crediton, 1985
‘Religious Spirit in Contemporary Art’, Westminster Cathedral,
1985
One Man Exhibition, The Grange, Rottingdean, Brighton, 1996
Galerie La Papessa, Vienna, 1998
One Man Exhibition, St Raphael Gallery, Piccadilly, London, 1999
Dudelange Museum, Luxembourg, 2001
‘Creation’, Ditchling Museum, Sussex, 2002
Brighton Festival - group shows annually since 1986 and Open Studios
Annual group shows with Society of Sussex Painters in Worthing, Eastbourne,
etc.
St Raphael Gallery, Piccadilly, London, 2004, 2005
Westminster Cathedral, London, "Christ Among Us" exhibition, July
2006
SW1 Gallery, London, December 2006 - January 2007, showed landscapes
Grant Bradley Gallery, Bristol, "Christ Among Us" exhibition,
April–June 2007
Joint exhibitions with Abdoulie Conteh, Grange Gallery Brighton, March 2006,
St Lukes Studio Portslade, Nov 2006
Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
SSP group exhibition, Thebes Gallery Lewes, 2007
Landscapes currently on show at Art Hut, Hurstmonceux, Sussex, 2008
Work in churches includes Great Altar Crucifix at St
Peters parish church, Brighton;
Great Hanging Crucifix at St Boniface Tooting, London; a cycle of sixteen
paintings at
St Georges, Hove; and an eight figure Reredos at St Marys, Bath.
Contributed landscape illustrations to two “How to Paint” books
by Gerald Woods; written articles for national design magazines; member
of local, national and international art societies. Prizewinner of Laing
competitions at the Mall Galleries, London, 1982, 2000.
A painting, ‘Hove Beach’, commissioned as Hove’s wedding present to Prince Charles, is now in the Royal Collection at Highgrove. Paintings are also in private collections in England, Belgium, Singapore, Australia, at Hove Museum of Art, the collections of East Sussex County Council and Nuffield Foundation, London.
John Armstrong NDD ATC.