(b.1948 Middlesex) studied
at Chelsea School of Art BA and MA Fine Art. Moved
to East Anglia in 1974. Twice awarded grants by Eastern Arts
and exhibited in the capital and regionally across a variety
of venues.
In Jack Crampton's paintings, loosely applied systems and constraints over gestural
processes edge components into
a ruffled formality. Since 2006 picture
plane and boundary
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are increasingly probed for resilience. Often
'paths' are driven across the surface; a nod to Barnett Newman's
'zips'
perhaps, but also like other linear devices used in earlier
paintings, a reference and hommage to the spirit of 'Land
Art'.
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