Graham Jefford
Website: www.grahamjefford.co.uk
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Graham Jefford is a landscape painter working primarily in oils, but also ventures into other subjects – portraiture in particular, and other media – drawing, collage and printmaking. He considers that time spent experimenting outside his normal oeuvre is never time wasted. His preferred practice is to work in the studio from sketchbook drawings, plein-air colour studies and memory and imagination, whilst also making use of reference photographs – particularly when away from home. In recent years his work has been deeply concerned with the Chiltern Hills and the Vale of Aylesbury, being his local patch, and which he finds a constant source of inspiration.
He is ever on the alert for those lines and rhythms in the landscape which can give structure to a painting. He tries to avoid what one might call iconic or picture postcard views, with which many are familiar, but searches instead for those views which for him represent the essence of the landscape, views which others might pass by without a second glance. His guiding light is a poem, Leisure, by W. H. Davies which opens ‘What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?’
Graham Jefford has been an exhibiting member of Bucks Art Society since 2008, and in addition to exhibiting at numerous local charitable fund raising art shows, has exhibited at Claydon House (NT), Discover Bucks Museum, and Wycombe Museum in an exhibition organised by the Chilterns Conservation Board to raise public awareness of its activities, and for which he was awarded first prize for his painting Into The Light. In 2020 he held a solo exhibition, Wendover Country, at the ‘alittlebirdtoldme’ gallery in Wendover. He has also participated in Bucks Art Weeks on several occasions, and currently his work can be seen in the corridors of Stoke Mandeville Hospital as part of NHS efforts to improve their visitor experience. His work can often be seen in the Fitch & Fellows gallery in Thame.
