Jeremy's CV and Bio
Curriculum Vitae:
Jeremy was born in England and has had a very varied career as a geologist in Africa and Australia, a town planner in Kent, a Senior IT executive with the worlds largest mining company and for a consortium of the major oil companies, a management consultant, an orchardist, a professional artist and teacher.
After graduating in England, Jeremy worked as a Town Planner in the UK, a Geologist in East Africa and Australia, an Information Technology executive in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and subsequently a management consultant. He works mainly in his studio in the Eastern Hills of Perth, Western Australia. He also runs an arts guest house on the banks of the Mekong River in Phon PhisaiNE Thailand
He studied for the Diploma of Art at the Claremont School of Art, in Perth.
In 1994 he held his first solo exhibition of Pilbara landscapes at Woodside Petroleum in Perth and Karratha. Since then he has had highly successful annual exhibitions at galleries in Perth and exhibited in Broome, Yallingup, Mandurah, Adelaide, Melbourne, Cairns, UK and the USA.
His paintings have been used in several books, CDs and magazines for publishers including the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Michigan University Press, the New York Art Guide and Palette Magazine.
Jeremy’s influences include Lloyd Rees, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Klimt, the Fauves, Lucian Freud, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval, Brett Whitely, Chagall, Garry Shead, Fred Williams, Stanley Spencer and Paula Rego .
His work is always innovative and with an enthusiasm and passion for art he concurrently develops several themes both painterly and conceptual. His work is characterised by movement, colour and wit.
Jeremy works mainly in acrylic and oil on canvas or cotton rag paper using a wide range of techniques from rough brushing in which he drags paint across the canvas to the glow of multiple translucent glazes.
Jeremy is continually experimenting and developing new ideas so that his work covers a wide range of subject matter and techniques.
These include landscapes/townscapes which capture the essence of Western Australia, nudes and flower studies.
His figures within landscape are allegorical, often ambiguous and sometimes whimsical. His flower studies and landscapes are often decorative and colourful.
Characteristically these works communicate to people in different ways as they interpret them from the source of their own experience and emotions.
Jeremy's work is represented in many private and public collections, both in Australia and internationally.
In March 1995 he established the first Internet art gallery in Australia JeremyHolton.com
Jeremy teaches art and is available to judge art shows.
Contact details:
Phone: 618 6102 0864 (Australia) this is a Skype number or 61411580903
Email: jeremyholton@gmail.com
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Jeremy Holton Bio:
1940 Born in Dunstable, England
1965-66 Geologist in Dar-es Salaam and Dodoma, Tanzania, East Africa
1966-67 Town Planner in Kent, England
1967-69 Geologist, with BHP in Whyalla, South Australia
1969-70 Trained in Information Technology by BHP in Wollongong in NSW
1970-77 Established and managed IT support for exploration, mining and petroleum business units for BHP. Regularly travelled around Australia to support mining sites
1977-87 Seconded to Woodside in Perth. Established and managed IT function for the NW Shelf Gas Project during feasibility, construction and operation phases of project
1987-99 Management Consultant with accounting firm Ernst & Young.
1989-99 Owner manager commercial stone fruit orchard in Mount Helena, Perth Hills.
1993-99 Artist with part time management consultant and orchardist.
March 1995 Established the first Internet World Wide Web galleries in Australia (Peach Tree Gallery, http://www.peachtreegallery.com).
1999 to date Full time artist
2004 to 2006 Moved to Thailand where her established studio
2006-date Returned to Australia to care for elderly parents. Established studio in Perth Hills while maintaining studio in Thailand
Medium Acrylic, oil, oil pastels and inks on canvas and paper
Subject matter Landscapes, flowers, nudes and works from imagination.
Studies 1988-94 Studied for Diploma of Art at Claremont School of Art in Perth
Influences Lloyd Rees, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Klimt, the Fauves, Lucian Freud, Arthur Boyd, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Brett Whitely, Chagall, Garry Shead and Fred Williams
Exhibitions Group and mixed exhibitions:
1992 Accent Gallery, Subiaco, WA
1993 Accent Gallery, Subiaco, WA
1994 Galleria del Mondo, Fremantle, WA
1997 Accent Gallery, Subiaco, WA
The A Shed, Fremantle, WA
Morales Art Galleries, Nags Head, North Carolina, USA
Rocky Bay at Hyatt Hotel, Perth
1998 Koz Arts Gallery, Mandurah, WA
Maxwell’s Fine Art Gallery of Roleystone, WA
1999 Maxwell’s Fine Art Gallery of Roleystone, WA
Matso’s Gallery, Broome, WA
Perth Society of Artists
Utopia Gallery, Cairns, Queensland
2000 Maxwell’s Fine Art Gallery of Roleystone, WA
Utopia Gallery, Cairns, Queensland
Yallingup Galleries, Yallingup WA
Perth Society of Artists
Pearler’s Row Gallery, Broome, WA
2001 Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza, Victoria
Mahoney’s Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
Yallingup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
Perth Society of Artists
Pearler’s Row Gallery, Broome, WA
2002 Fishbone Gallery, Mandurah, WA
Pearler’s Row Gallery, Broome, WA
Perth Society of Artists (award for best painting)
2003 Perth Society of Artists
2004 Perth Society of Artists
2005 Perth Society of Artists
2006 Perth Society of Artists
2007 Perth Society of Artists
2007 Painting the town
2008 Perth Society of Artists
2011 Garden Studio, Yallingup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
2011 Rogue Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
2011 Perth Society of Artists
2012......Monet Gallery of Fine Arts, Guildford, WA
2017......Monet Gallery of Fine Arts, Guildford, WA
Solo exhibitions:
1994 Woodside Offshore Petroleum, Perth, WA
Frame and Paint Art Gallery, Karratha, WA (now closed)
1995 The Gallery of Fine Art, Perth, WA
1996 The Gallery of Fine Art, Perth, WA (now closed)
1997 Matso’s Gallery, Broome, WA
1998 Matso’s Gallery, Broome, WA (now closed)
Accent Gallery, Subiaco, WA
1999 Impressions Gallery, Cultural Centre, Perth. WA
Accent Fine Art Gallery, Subiaco, WA
2000 Accent Fine Art Gallery, Subiaco WA (now closed)
2002 Accent Fine Art Gallery, Dalkeith, WA (now closed)
Artist in Residence, Sandalford Caversham Estate Winery, WA
2003 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA
2004 Challen & Rafferty Gallery, Subiaco, WA
DDC charity exhibition at Melbourne Hotel, Perth, WA
2005 Challen & Rafferty Gallery, Subiaco, WA (now closed)
2007 Tristans Gallery, Lake Street, Northbridge, WA (Cancelled due to closure of gallery)
2008 Gallery Nine by Five, Fremantle, WA (now closed)
2009 Joint exhibition with Kaye Devlin at Jane Brook Winery, Swan Valley, WA
2010 Perth Concert Hall
2011 Solo at Devlines Subiaco
2011 CHOGM exhibition at Perth Concert Hall
2012 Kaleidoscope exhibition at Perth Concert Hall
2013 Elements Art Gallery, Dalkeith, Western Australia
Represented
Telstra
Alinta Gas
New Norcia
Newman College Junior School
ANZ Bank
WA, Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council
WA, York Shire Council
Private collections in WA, Victoria, NSW, Queensland, USA, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, Kuwait and UK
Exhibiting Galleries
Monet Gallery of Fine Arts, Guildford, WA
Yallingup Galleries, Yallingup, WA
Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, WA
Commissions
Numerous private commissions
Publications
Arts Unlimited, Vol 2 No 1 February 1995
‘Il museo che non c’e’ – The Museum Which Does Not Exist’ CD-ROM published by dgPIXEL, Italy
Off-line World Wide Web CD-ROM published by SOHO Media Co Ltd, Taipei
Japanese Tourist Map of Perth, published by Perth Express, annually 1999 to 2004
Cover of talking book ‘We of the Never Never’ published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1999
Cover of book “Island Farm” published by Michigan State University Press, 2000
Cover of book “An Endless Afternoon” published by WA Lactation Consultants, 2000
Cover of talking book “Pilgrimage” published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2000
Cover of CD “Sax and the single girl III”
Article in The New York Art Guide
Greetings cards – The Romantic Card Company – Beverley Hills (Planned)
Artist’s Palette Magazine, November, 2004
Artist’s Palette Magazine, March/April 2009
Teaching
Trish Austin’s Art School, Parkerville, WA
Crucible Studios, Toodyay, WA
Teaches oil pastel techniques to artist groups
Discoveries in oil pastels with Jeremy Holton - Extraordinary Mind Project
Media
Many reviews and articles in newspapers and magazines
Judging
2008 May - Toodyay Art Society
2008 Toodyay Show - Arts section
2009 Toodyay Show - Arts section
2010 Metrochurch Community Art Award, Northbridge
2014 The Fred Killiok Memorial Art Award, Northam WA
2016 Fred Killick Art Awards at Northam
Contacts
Australia: Peach Tree Arts, 740 Dibble Street, MOUNT HELENA, Western Australia, Australia 6082
Email: jeremyholton@gmail.com Web: http://www.jeremyholton.com