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Ewart Johns, born in 1923, in Barry, South Wales, was a practising artist until his death in 2013. From Barry to Cambridge, then London to Exeter, his love of drawing, painting and the broader Arts shaped his early life and enhanced his career at Exeter University. In 1972 he was the founding head of the new department of the Visual Arts at Lancaster University. In the 1980s he moved back to Devon (Exeter and then South Brent) to concentrate fully on his own artwork. His creative life has also involved theatre production and design, writing and music, but primarily he is an artist who has shared his love of exploring line, form and colour during his teaching career, while at the same time producing a very large body of his own works.
In 1986 Ewart created a video of his creative process at that time in conjunction with Ian Gordon and the Psychology Department of Exeter University. This is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sgUbiGjNUU
This website was originally created with Ewart a year before he died, and it is maintained now by his son, Nick Johns, and grandson, Philip Johns. The sample of works illustrated here shows Ewart’s lifelong exploration of the human figure, and also its relationship with, and his interest in landscape. More images are being added.