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John Farrington - A Brief Biography (10 Mar 2005) |
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John Farrington, born in 1933, attended the School of Arts in Dudley, Worcestershire, where he was encouraged to study illustration and printmaking. Christopher Wood, Edward Bawden, John Minton, Alan Reynolds and Oskar Kokoschka were influences. Farrington painted the Black Country and also worked in series, such as bird men, fairgrounds, seascapes and landscapes. He depicted the grimmer aspects of farming, having worked as a cowman. In 1984 Farrington produced the paintings for Granada Television's The Ebony Tower, based on John Fowles' novel. In his introduction to the Goldmark Gallery John Farrington exhibition catalogue of 1993, Rigby Graham wrote of his paintings: To a large extent Farrington's paintings stand on their own and speak for themselves. They have something of his own independence of spirit about them... They are the products of an imaginative and effusive painter who recognises the magic in ordinary things, and whose interpretations of this effloresce into life.
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