Buttermilk Art School is based near Oxford
Buttermilk Stud Farm, Barford St Michael, Banbury, OX15 0PL
George was brought up surrounded by Art and artists. His mother recalls George commenting on recognizable forms in the clouds at the age of 4 and always encouraged him to paint from an early age. At the age of 16 he was the youngest exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and then at the early age of 17 became a Fine Art student at the Slade School, University College of London where painting was a very much inherited and celebrated activity. At the Slade he had the good fortune to spend time in the ‘F’ Studio with Euan Uglow and experience the energy of Bruce McLean.
Colour has always been top of George’s priorities. He believes strongly in the understanding and practising of colour theory and the subtle yet powerful effects that colour relationships can have on our emotions.
George’s subject matter is varied however landscape is a prominent force. He has been heavily influenced by the place that he lives, a rural and beautifully visual place in terms of an English romantic idyll. George is endlessly recording through drawing and photography that provide source material for studio based work. He likes the idea of the overlooked, everyday, perhaps mundane, being transformed into serious, sometimes monumental Art. These subjects give him opportunities for abstraction. Surface and colour take on a life of their own in George’s work and his subject matter is be interpreted in various ways.
Buttermilk Art School is based near Oxford
Buttermilk Stud Farm, Barford St Michael, Banbury, OX15 0PL