Sean Jefferson Oil on Board, Moonlight No 2.

Sean Jefferson Oil on Board, Moonlight No 2.

Size is 103 x 73cm including the frame.

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https://www.messums.com/artists/view/1218/Sean_Jefferson

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Sean Jefferson’s paintings are quite unlike anything any contemporary British artist is exhibiting today.

Immediately striking, wholly unforgettable, they’re an extraordinary combination of literary and artistic influences and experiences that have evolved over his past thirty-five years as a professional artist. Born in south-east London in 1957, Jefferson studied Microbiology at Imperial College, London, where he developed both his observational skills and his draughtsmanship making careful records of plants and microbiological specimens.

Whilst it was the tea-time TV publicity surrounding the death of German surrealist Max Ernst in 1976 that inspired him to become an artist, it is the earlier tradition of nineteenth-century British visionary art that is evoked in his paintings: William Blake, Samuel Palmer, Richard Dadd, G.F. Watts, the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood, Symbolism and Art Nouveau all have their place. But this is combined with a fascination with magic and folklore, as well as an early love of psychedelic art.

After periods living and working in Amsterdam and Cornwall, Jefferson now lives near Shoreham, Kent, where Samuel Palmer painted his early visionary paintings. He has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and Russia, but 2020 exhibition was his first major solo show in over twenty years. Since then, Jefferson has used his work to return to his routes as a painter, and ‘to get back into the mindset in which I set out to become a professional artist.’ The paintings evoke what he calls ‘an obsessive need to explore and attempt to comprehend the Universe and everything in it.’ They are ‘infused with a mix of Folk Revivalism, the Occult and Art Nouveau mixed with a fading Psychedelia, long hair and outrageously large Bellbottoms …’