Biography
Born in Scotland in 1945, John Glover studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1963 - 1967 and at Jordanhill College of Further Education from 1967 - 1968. In 1992 he completed a BA Arts Degree with the Open University.
Between 1970 and 1980, John worked as a freelance book illustrator in London for such publishers as Evans Brothers, Hamlyns, Oxford University Press and Macmillans. From 1980 he has concentrated on his love of portraiture.
John Glover is a highly accomplished and experienced portrait painter. His subjects have included people from all walks of life, from grand official portraits of academic Masters or Chairmen of Councils, to smaller, more intimate family groups or individual studies. His work ranges from portraits in which he has captured the character and dignity of age, to others where it is the innocence of childhood that is portrayed. He works in all mediums from pencil to watercolour, pastel to oils.
Landscape Painting
John is also an estimable landscape painter and has exhibited widely. "I love working out of doors and battling with the elements. My paintings capture windswept Scottish beaches, vast East Anglian skies, the glowing colours of France and the magic of Venice"Teaching
John teaches his own private day schools on portraiture and life-drawing and painting in the Cambridge area, summer portrait schools throughout the country and demonstrates regularly to art groups and Societies. He is also available for individual tuition.Exhibitions
John Glover has exhibited at:The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
The Royal Society of Marine Artists
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters
The Pastel Society
The National Portrait Gallery, London (as part of the Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award)
| He has had various one-man exhibitions including: The Arts Club, London The Phoenix Gallery, Lavenham The Dick Abbott Gallery, Burwell The Daryl Nantais Gallery, Linton The Waterloo Gallery, Stranraer The Clachanmore Gallery, Portpatrick The Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright The Maxwelltown Gallery, Dumfries John is also a member of and exhibits locally with: The Cambridge Drawing Society Bury St Edmunds Arts Society CommissionsThese include:Professor Sir Brian Heap, Kt, CBE, ScD, FRS, Master St. Edmunds College, Cambridge 1996 - 2004 Sir Roy Watts, CBE, Chairman of Thames Water 1983 - 1993 Dr. Richard Dyer, MSc, PhD. Director The Babraham Institute, Cambridge 1994 - 2005 Ian G Templeton, MA, BA, Warden Glenalmond College, Perthshire 1992 - 2003 Reverend John Barret, Headmaster The Leys School, Cambridge 1990 - 2004 Sir Alex Jarratt, Kt, Chancellor University of Birmingham 1983 - 2002 Sir Roger Elliott, Kt, Fellow New College Oxford Paisley of Westerlea, Chieftan of the Paisley Clan George Clare, Winner of the 1982 WH Smith Literary Award Andrew Campbell, OBE, Convenor of Dumfries and Galloway Council Councillor James Gordon, BSc, MA Chairman of Essex County Council Lord Gisborough, Lord Lieutenant of Cleveland Dick Whittington, a portrait for the Mercers Company of London |
 Sam Oils 28"x24" |