{"title":"John Crossley LG RWS","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eJohn Crossley LG RWS is a British painter whose abstract works explore colour, structure and the emotional possibilities of painted surfaces. Built through a gradual process of addition and subtraction, his paintings develop in layers, creating complex relationships between colour, shape, pattern and texture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eColour is central to Crossley’s practice, used not simply as decoration but as a means of suggesting mood, sensation and ways of experiencing the world. His compositions often emerge intuitively through the painting process, with successive layers revealing and obscuring what lies beneath.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eBorn in Dagenham, Essex in 1952, Crossley studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1970 to 1974. He was elected a member of The London Group in 1978 and became a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2017, having previously been elected an Associate in 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eCrossley has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and his work is held in both public and private collections.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.ionahousegallery.org\/collections\/john-crossley-lg-rws.oembed","provider":"Iona House Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}