Biography
John Edwards (b. London, UK 1938 - d. London 2006) studied at Hornsey College of Art (1953-60), with a spell in Royal Air Force (1956-8) as well as at Leeds University's Institute of Education and at l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels, Brussels. In the early 1960s Edwards taught at Brighton College of Art and Leeds University Institute. After a British Council Scholarship took him to Belgium in 1963–4, Edwards embarked on a busy teaching career which included periods at Chelsea and Brighton and St Martin’s School of Art, where he was senior lecturer in painting. In the mid-1970s he taught at the School of Visual Arts, in New York City, at Syracuse University, New York state (as well as being artist-in-residence), and at the Painting School of Montmiral, in Drôme, south-east France. Edwards, who painted mainly abstract pictures, using X's, T's and crosses and arcs and made sculpture, took part in many group exhibitions and from 1967 he had extensive solo shows at Rowan Gallery. In 1979 a Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery show toured England. He held exhibitions in Syracuse, Washington, San Francisco, Turin and Jaipur and New Delhi, where he spent a lot of time in the last decade of his life.
