ARTIST
Hugh O'Donnell
Hugh O'Donnell, born in 1950 in London, UK, studied at Camberwell College of Arts, London, and pursued further studies in Japan on a Japanese Monbusho Scholarship. His abstract expressionist style is deeply rooted in modernism, drawing inspiration from artists like Clyfford Still and Philip Guston. O'Donnell's work explores the interplay between gesture, nature, and the human body, employing automatic drawing techniques and embracing the expressive qualities of calligraphy. Since 1996, he has served as a Professor of Painting at Boston University College of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts.
Biography
Born: 1950, London, UK
Hugh O'Donnell is a British aritst born in 1950 in London, UK. He studied at Camberwell College of Arts, London and traveled to Japan on a Japanese Monbusho Scholarship where he studied at Kyoto-Shiritsu Geijutsu Daigaku, Kyoto City University of Arts. While in Japan he continued painting, and in particular drawing. He had several exhibitions culminating with one sponsored by the British Council and Nishimura Gallery.
O'Donnell's abstract expressionist style taps into the lyrical and emotional roots of modernism, aligning his work more with that of artists such as Clyfford Still, Philip Guston and Franz Klein, than with postmodernist trends.He sets up a correspondence with gesture between the rhythms of the body and those of nature, through a method of automatic drawing that emulates the ebb and flow of the elements. Also important to his style are his studies of the expressive implications of the painter-calligrapher's approach to painting. O’Donnell has been Professor of Painting at Boston University College of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, since 1996.
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