Oliver Campion
ARTIST: Oliver Campion RBA (1928-2000) British
TITLE: “Still Life With Artichokes”
SIGNED: lower left
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 86cm x 75cm inc frame
CONDITION: very good
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born in Brasted, Kent, his family being distantly related to the Elizabethan poet, Thomas Campion. Campion painted still life and landscape. His scenes in the south of France and still life studies were in colour and construction in the Cézanne tradition. He studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts and Slade School of Fine Art. Campion taught at Oxford School of Art, Morley College and at Camberwell. After solo shows at Mayor Gallery in 1968 and 1971 he had a succession of exhibitions from 1975 at New Grafton Gallery, which gave him a memorial show in 2001, another in 2004. The Arts Club, Financial Times and Magdalen College, Oxford, are among the owners of his work. Died in London.
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ARTIST: Oliver Campion (1928-2000) British
TITLE: “Campden Hill Square”
SIGNED: lower left
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 51cm x 46cm framed
CONDITION: excellent
PRICE: £sold
DETAIL: An original impressionist oil painting by Oliver Campion with New Grafton Gallery London exhibition label verso for 1989. Campion studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was much influenced by William Coldstream. He later taught at Camberwell and between 1968 and 2001 his work was shown at numerous one-man shows at the Mayor Gallery and the New Grafton Gallery. He was a fine craftsman, paying great attention to the details of his canvas and the quality of the paints. He always said that colour would come when he was ready for it, as it did in his later pictures.
In his words: ‘ A sense of light and space is what I would like to achieve in a painting’
