CULTURE
JEDD GAMBLE As well as being the only artist in this piece who is regularly mistaken for Bruce Willis, Jedd is the only artist in this piece who regularly works in mediums other than paint. A graduate of Bristol University, Jedd lived in the city for 5 years and holds a B.A (hons) in drawing and applied arts. The primary inspiration behind Jedd’s work comes from graphic illustration and graffiti, but he also draws on music, and life surrounding him for ideas.
Jedd sketches everything by hand before transferring it to canvas or scanning it into Photoshop. Both pieces here are computer manipulations, but prior to their existence in this format, they moved from the embryonic origins in Jedd’s brain through a more traditional life in his sketchbook. A running theme in Jedd’s work is his use of humour – sometimes for its own sake, and sometimes as a tool to communicate his particular view of life and society.
He’s uploaded a substantial back-catalogue of work to the website Deviant Art, so if you like what you see here, it’s well worth checking out his page. It can be accessed at: jedd-fury. deviantart.com
To get in contact with Jedd, drop him a line on: jeddfury@hotmail.com
GRAHAM LEWORTHY My dad met my mum at Reading University, from whence he graduated in 1969 with a BA (hons) in fine art. Living in London in the 60s was a great time, not least because of the people dad got to work with; Claude Rogers, Terry Frost, Ewan Uglow and Richard Hamilton all taught at Reading university’s art department. Dad’s painting has been a constant in his life. Occasionally it took the form of a day job (he has taught at both the Berkshire College of Art and the College of F.E in Guernsey,) and occasionally it has garnered him praise (he won the Reading University prize in 1969 and was a prize winner in the JJ Fox in 1976,) but I think it fair to say that, for him, these are tangential benefits at most. The reason he paints is that it’s a vocation. Graham sees himself as an artisan or a builder – and the blocks with which he builds are colour, shape, tone and texture. BECAUSE QUALITY MATTERS
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Living in the Channel Islands, many of these fundamentals have been supplied by the sea, and maritime elements feature strongly in his work.
To see more of Graham’s paintings or find out more about him, just visit: www.gleworthy.com
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