Eamon Everall (born 6 October 1948) is an English artist and educator. He was one of the 12 founder members of the Stuckists art group.[1] He paints in a "neo-cubist" style,[2] with subjects from life worked on over a long period.[3]
He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire in an army family.[3] He spent his childhood years in the UK, Europe and Asia, and attended 14 schools, including in Germany and the Far East.[1] The last of these were St Edmunds School, Dover, and The Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, both in Kent, England.
He studied art at the now-defunct Folkestone School of Art, and then Waltham Forest School of Art (now University of East London). He took a postgraduate course in advanced printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art, specialising in printmaking.[1] After college he travelled abroad, and ended up working on a Rhine river steamer, then worked as a postman and a dustman.[1]
From 1988 onwards, he has divided his week between his studio practice and working as Head of Art & Design, Redbridge Institute, London.[1] He said that "adult learners really can turn out the goods and produce work of great depth and wit" and that he sees entry level students regularly gaining university places.[4]
In 1996, he gained a post-graduate degree (MA) in Visual Theory.[1] He was a founder member of the Stuckist art movement in 1999, and has been an exhibitor in all their main group shows since then.[5] In 2000 he curated the Stuckist exhibition at the Metropole Arts Centre in Folkestone.
He lives in east London on the edge of Epping Forest, practises Buddhist meditation, and lives frugally; his early years in Malaya have created a lasting taste for hot, spicy food.[8]
Art
Eamon Everall. The Gift
Everall creates vivid compositions[9] incorporating elements of neo-cubism.[2] He mostly works from life and observation, although there is considerable interpretation in the result.
Some of his paintings may take several years to complete, as changes are made and the composition revised over many layers.[1] He is also technically knowledgeable, studying theories of "paint chemistry, technique, history of art, composition and the perceptual process. I consider such knowledge an essential part of the painter's method."[1]
He goes on Buddhist meditation retreats, and this can inform his work: the idea for a painting The Gift came to him "in a flash" during one.[1] He refrains from talking about the meaning of the painting, as it "works on a number of different levels. I'm trying to create paintings which can be revisited time and time again, so the viewer finds a growing set of meanings and sensations."[1]
The basic subject of the painting is a woman standing behind a cluttered table of plates, fruit and books, and seen through a doorway (the painting is the shape and size of a door). There is an empty chair next to her and a guitar in between.
Eamon Everall. The Love Letter
Behind her is what appears to be a window showing a typical English residential street. The woman's hands hold a wooden tray upon which lie an assortment of papers and magazines. Different viewpoints, visual perspectives and facetted images are employed throughout the painting which is built upon a vertical pictorial geometry based on a golden section rectangle and a square.
As of 2008, Everall is working on a series of paintings portraying artists associated with Stuckism. Completed so far are portraits of Billy Childish and Charles Thomson (co-founders of Stuckism), Ella Guru and Mark D, plus one of himself. All the portraits are either wholly from life or using drawings made from life, backed up with his own photos. The intention is to create more than 20 such works in the coming year.
As well as producing paintings and related 2D art work, Everall also creates 3D works which range from small palm sized ceramic pieces to large outdoor stone sculpture. He won a commission for a Millennium sculpture in East London.[3]
Gallery
A Newer Olympia
Windmill Baader
Breakfast with Andrea
Mother and Child
Folkestone 1
Candy Stripes
Axonometric Still Life
Desire
Notes and references
Eamon Everall (seated, centre) with the first Stuckist group, 2000
Artists' names in italics indicate artists no longer in the movement (as of November 2011)
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