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Blackburn was born in a village outside Luton and attended the Margate School of Art, where he studied textile design. After school, he served in the National Service (and later lived) in New Zealand, Malaysia, and the surrounding area from 1954 to 1962. In Auckland, New Zealand, he met his future wife, Maudie McKinnon.
John Blackburn: texture, colour and abstraction. From his home at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, in April 1962 H. S. Ede wrote to the painter John Blackburn, the first letter in a correspondence that was to last for over a decade. Ede began by stating what a pleasure it had been for him to look at Blackburn’s paintings recently at the ...
OK. John Blackburn Modern British Artist (1932-2022). The themes in his work remained constant down the years, the ways in which he revisited them continually open to experiment and reassessment, to new inventions of form and material as he strove for what he describes as an elusive truth.’.
The family business grew in success and reputation in the decades to come, culminating for John with the honour of an MBE in 2013 for services to manufacturing and export. However, with the turn of the millennium and the business in the capable hands of Maude and his now grown daughter Kerstin, John Blackburn returned to painting with a new focus.
Sep 14, 2022 · So says John Blackburn, who is celebrating his ninetieth birthday with his seventh exhibition at Mayfair gallery Osborne Samuel (September 8 – 23). The first of these was in 2007, a year after Blackburn re-emerged from obscurity after a 28-year hiatus from the art world, during which the artist had followed another career path to support his family, after a successful early career in both ...
John Blackburn Biography After studying at the Margate School of Art, and a stint in the RAF, English-born John Blackburn ventured to New Zealand in the 1950s. By the time he returned to his native England in 1961 he was arguably the most radical painter working in Auckland, where he had exhibited at Auckland’s short-lived Circle Gallery.
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In 2018 Dr Ian Massey published the book John Blackburn: The Human and the Abstract which included an excellent chapter on Blackburn’s New Zealand years written by Christopher Johnstone. In June 2022 we celebrated the milestone of John’s 90th birthday and four months ago he sent us a collection of stunning new paintings for his 2023 exhibition.
