John Craxton RA
1922 - 2009
The son of composer and pianist, Harold Craxton, John first studied in 1939 at the Academie Julian and Academie de la Grane Chaumiere in Paris, with the outbreak of war relocating to London to attend Westminster Art School and the Central School of Art, after being rejected from military service on health grounds, moving on to Goldsmiths' College. He toured Pembrokeshire with Graham Sutherland in 1943, and his first major exhibition was at the Leicester Galleries in 1944, the work described as neo-Romantic and influenced by Sutherland and Samuel Palmer, both influences on the present works. From the mid-1940s, he travelled extensively in Mediterranean countries, moving permanently to Crete in 1970, returning to London as required by exhibitions and commissions, notably for theatre design.
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