About - Jim Crouch, Artist, Art, Painting, Cornwall, Wales, UK


	About Born in 1939,James Crouch gained entry to Cardiff College of Art and pursued his studies from 1957 - 1962 during which time he gained his degree and completed a Post Graduate Year at Cardiff University. He then moved to Yorkshire where he taught art and continued painting, including teaching in the evenings at H.M.P. Everthorpe, a maximum security Borstal. In 1967, he moved to Cornwall where he taught whilst exhibiting in a number of galleries around the country. In 1972 he was appointed as the Head of Creative Studies Faculty in a large Community College where he worked until retiring . This has now allowed him more time to devote to the development of his own work. He uses a variety of media,which reflects the use of strong bold images developed from a personal response to the environment, his emotions and experiences. His painting technique exploits the use of colour and texture applied in a vigorous yet controlled manner to achieve form and structure. Consequently the subjects are far ranging, embracing landscape, figurative, abstract and symbolic images of an individual nature. This provides the onlooker the opportunity of seeing the familiar and not so familiar with fresh emphasis.

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <h1>Jim Crouch, Artist, James, Art1, Painting, Painter, Cornwall, Wales, UK, Artwork, Art Exhibitions, Padstow, Art teacher, Cornish art, Welsh art, Cornish artist, Welsh artist, Cornish watercolour, Cornish landscape artist, The Chase Art Centre, Oriel Washinton Gallery, Penarth South Wales </h1> <p>Jim Crouch is an artist in Cornwall whose most recent paintings have been inspired by the coastal sand dunes at Rock on the Camel Estuary near Padstow, and the Welsh mountain scenes of Snowdonia.</p> <p>James crouch, better known as Jim Crouch is an artist living in Cornwall, Uk who produces paintings inspired by the landscape in Cornwall and Wales. Jim Crouch has also worked as an art teacher until retiring recently to concentrate on developing his own art.<br> Jim Crouch has exhibited in galleries in Cornwall, Wales and around the UK including Richmond Art Gallery, Oriel Gallery, South Wales and The Chase Art Centre, Wadebridge.James Crouch's recent work has been inspired by the area around Padstow Cornwall where he has created vibrant paintings of the sea,sand, dunes and plants of the Cornish landscape. Jim Crouch's close affinity with Wales has also led him to produce recent work of the mountains and landscape surrounding Snowdonia. Jim Crouch incorporates landscape, figurative,abstract, and symbolic images in his painting. The artist Jim Crouch uses a variety of media - oils, watercolour, inks, pastels and mixed media to create his paintings of Cornwall, Wales, people, boats and symbolic images.<br> Jim Crouch has also worked as an art teacher in Yorkshire and Cornwall whilst continuing to paint and exhibit his artwork in galleries across the UK.</p> </body>