John A Blythe

My passion is in using photography and the photographic process to see beyond our natural vision, to bring into being a world that we cannot see with our own eyes, yet exists right there in front of us. My photographs explore what things look like photographed. I am drawn to the light, colour, pattern and texture that cities are made of as well as the simplicity and beauty of natural form.

Photographs often speak of the past, however I am interested in making images that can be experienced in the present, seen anew every time you look at them. Not an epitaph, not a memory of a time past but now, fresh and new.

Master of Fine Art in Fine Art.
PGDip(Ed)

Recent Exhibitions:

Solo/Joint Exhibitions:
2019 – Chromogenesis – Upcycle Gallery, Templar Sq, Oxford, UK
2018 – Accord – The Old Fire Station Gallery, Oxford, UK.
2017 – Journey: Vol1 – Nuffield OC, Headington, Oxford.
2016 – The Blue of Distance – Atelier 37, Oxfordshire Artweeks, UK.

Group Exhibitions:
2024 – Le Salon d’Automne 121st Edition – Place Clemenceau Pavillons éphémères, avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
2024 – Verpackung – BBK Art Space, Bonn, Germany
2024 – Artweeks 2024 Big20 – OVADA, Oxford, UK
2024 – Radical Residency VIII – Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, UK
2024 – An Exploration of Colour – Centre for Print Research – University of West of England, Bristol, UK

2023 – Reconstruct – The Secret Salon #2, Create & Destroy Studio, London, UK
2023 – Rethinking The Landscape – Conversations with Artists – online
2023 – ABSTRACT – New York Centre for Photographic Art, New York, USA
2023 – Out of the Box – BBK Art Space, Bonn, Germany
2023 – Der Greif 15th Anniversary Exhibition – “Contextualise”, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany

2022 – RESTORE – Cornerstone Gallery, Didcot, UK
2022 – BOX | Bonn Oxford art eXchange – St Michael’s Church, Summertown, Oxford UK
2022 – Flux noun [CHANGE] – The Jam Factor...