Contact e-mail: smithpeterjonathan@yahoo.co.uk

►Statement:

I create semi-autonomous, abstract paintings that create a layered, complex, visual and textural feast or harmony.

My paintings are to be experienced as wondrous entities with a life of their own, but they always derive from a tangible (mostly visual) experience that I have had in a landscape or urban environment-mostly in places where the urban and nature combine.

Many of my paintings involve a multi-experiential and conceptual sense of a place.

►Collections/ Sales:  

I have sold 15 paintings in the last 12 months (April 2016-March 2017); and has sold tens of dozens of paintings to many private collections in 14 Private Collections in the UK (he has one patron in West Sussex who has 9 of Jonathan’s paintings and 5 of his prints); many collectors in Worthing, and overseas in Gran Canaries, Australia, Cyprus and Germany and in one public place.

►Commissions:

I have received fifteen commissions, including portraits.

►Exhibitions:

I  have exhibited widely in ten group shows including one solo show in Cyprus; he has showed a painting in a group show at the prominent CGP gallery in Southwark Park, London, where he sold that painting.

►Scholarship Awards:

I have achieved the prestigious RSBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Rome scholarship award for a drawing prize in Sussex - to study the art, architecture and history in Rome, in 2004, staying at the British School of Rome.

►Qualifications:

I have seven art qualifications, including a BA (Hons) 2:1 Fine Art: Painting, a Distinction Plus in Art History and a National Diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration.