John Bangs Pastel Paintings and Drawings
Contact Details:
25 Blissett Street
London
SE10 8UP
T: 07879 480056
About John Bangs:
John Bangs studied Fine Art at Reading University under the tuition of Claude Rogers and Terry Frost RA. After gaining his degree, he completed a teaching course at Goldsmith's College and then spent a number of years teaching art and literacy at Bow Secondary School and Templars Special School.
John has been Education Officer for the National Union of Teachers since 1990.
John works mostly in dry pastels, using colour as an expressionistic tool for recording memories of valued places and people. In this way he views his drawings as being a form of visual diary, and cites the work of Edward Hopper, Jack Yates and Pierre Bonnard as influential in the development of his style.
John has been participating with the Greenwich Open Studios group for several years. He has exhibited many times at the annual Whitechapel Open exhibitions, and at local galleries such as the Woodlands Gallery and Blackheath Concert Halls.
You can view some of John's work by moving your cursor over the thumbnails to the left. This will reveal a highlighted version of the image. Click the thumbnail to launch a detailed image or to browse the entire collection.
The 2009 Studios will take place on the 6th-7th and 13th-14th June. The studios will be open between 11.00am and 6.00pm.
The 2009 show will include new work from the South of France and from the Greenwich waterfront.
You can can see John's work at 25 Blissett Street SE10 during the Open or by appointment.
Click here for further information on Greenwich Open Studios