Sujata Bajaj: Recent Paintings and Book Launch
Sujata Bajaj was born in Jaipur, India in 1958. She trained in India and also in France. She received a French Government Scholarship in 1988-89 & studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris. She currently lives and works in Paris.
Sujata has worked with different art forms and media such as etching, woodcut, sculpture, murals, ceramics, fibreglass and metals. Presently she is working with mixed media and acrylics.
Her works are included in national & international, private and public collections.
To request a copy of the exhibition catalogue or to order a copy of the book L’Ordre du monde on the work of Sujata Bajaj with texts by Jean-Claude Carrière and Lorette Nobécourt,
please contact Barby Chhohan at the gallery: bchhohan@osbornesamuel.com
Geoffrey Eastop: Images of Man
Geoffrey Eastop was brought up in London and the suburban countryside. At school he showed a talent for art but he took the course expected of him and worked as an insurance broker until joining the army in 1940.
Throughout his childhood he was absorbed by a deep interest in the wildlife of the countryside, a concern which has never left him. After the war, searching for a career, he went to art school and at Goldsmiths College London the discovery of the great artists of the modern movement came as a complete revelation and convinced him to try and become a painter. In 1952 he worked in Paris and later in London where in the end numerous difficulties directed him towards pottery which he had experimented with whilst at Goldsmiths. Subsequently because his painterly instincts remained strong he was able to develop his work both as a ceramicist and as a painter.
In 1969 he began a long and rewarding collaboration with John Piper which continued until his death in 1992. This period working closely with an important artist enabled Eastop to move more closely to his principle aim to bring together the potter’s skills with artist’s instincts.
During this period Geoffrey lectured in Ceramics and Art and Design and undertook major commissions including wall and floor tiles for the chapel at Robinson College Oxford, and the new ceramic coat of arms for Reading Civic Centre from a design by John Piper. In 1992 he had a major retrospective exhibition at Portsmouth City Museum which travelled, and again in 2005 he had another major retrospective at the River and Rowing Museum Henley- on-Thames. His work is now held in numerous public collections including the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Victoria and Albert Museum London.
This new work by Geoffrey is the result of a long and innovative period of development. He has been using a unique hand-building technique which has allowed him greater flexibility with the character of his forms and freedom for new ideas. |
