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“In painting everything begins somewhere. But if all of it—the origin, the hand, the object, the very materials—is deliberately without value, I have a good chance of achieving my goal: a painting without context or purpose. Simultaneously everything and nothing. A painting that exists in its purest form, free from the weight of judgment.
To this end, I work with found objects—discards from the nonsense of humanity. Found objects beget their own objections—each material a provocation. My medium is leftover house paint and charcoal collected from the bush. Nothing sacred, nothing precious. I paint from all sides—horizontally, vertically—refusing orientation, refusing narrative. I experiment constantly. Decisions made in the moment. Accidents allowed. Meaning irrelevant.
Ideas overflow, disrupt boundaries, and bleed into one another—uncontained, unresolved.” (John Eden, 2025)
John Eden is a prolific artist who paints and draws the everyday as well as the surrounding bushlands where he lives and works in the hills near Perth. Eden graduated from Leeds Polytechnic, BA(hons) Fine Art in 1990 and then finished his post-grad in teaching at Middlesex University.
Image: Squid Berry Bimba, 2025. Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 172.5 X 138CM