Jeremy Annear (English, b.1949)

Jeremy Annear calls himself a ‘European Modernist’, committed to Constantin Brancusi’s maxim: ‘simplicity is complexity resolved’ and inspired by the great Modernists of both the Continent: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Surrealists; and the St Ives painters: Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon and Patrick Heron. Trained at the Exeter College of Art, Jeremy set his heart on being an artist at an early age and exhibited his first abstract work in the mid-sixties. He moved to Cornwall in the mid-1980s, painting for many years in a converted chapel. In the 1990s he was an active member of the Newlyn and Penwith Societies of Artists.

Jeremy Annear belongs to the exceptional lineage of Cornish Modernists which emerged in the 1930s with Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Jeremy is part of the third generation in this artistic lineage, alongside his contemporaries who came to the fore in the 1970s and 1980s.