BLOOMFIELD GALLERIES JEREMY GORDON Home | Contact Us ARTIST'S STATEMENT — PROCESS AND MEDIUM EMPLOYED My methods of tempera painting vary, but all my tempera paintings are built of multiple layers of pigment bound, or tempered, with egg yolk or an egg and oil emulsion. A straight egg tempera painting is made up of small brush strokes in layers. Pure egg tempera does not lend itself to blending as readily as oil paint and traditionally the surface is built by hatching and cross hatching. My paintings in egg and oil tempera are built of multiple layers of pigment tempered with egg, egg and oil emulsions, oil glazes and oil paint. This is a more flexible medium and behaves differently optically to egg tempera because of the introduction of oil. The oils used vary and resins are sometimes added. The panels for tempera painting are coated with nine or ten layers of gesso. Gesso is calcium carbonate (whiting) mixed with rabbit skin glue. This makes a very stable ground and the many layers of the gesso also have an effect on the optics of the painting. Tempera on gesso is one of the oldest mediums for making paintings. It's longevity is well known. The combination of the layers of the gesso ground and the many layers of pigment variously bound build up luminosity of colour. Please click on the thumbnails to view larger images. Paintings on this page are for sale from Bloomfield Galleries. To order, please click here. PAINTINGS PAGEANT Date Medium Size Signature Price 1991 Egg and oil on panel 59.5 x 90.0 cm Signed and dated lower centre $14,000 (framed)   SHIFTING SANDS Date Medium Size Signature Price 1981 Egg and oil on panel 74.0 x 100.5 cm Signed and dated lower left $10,000 (framed)   CHRONOLOGY 1947 Born in Adelaide, South Australia 1961-62 Fine Arts, South Australian School of Art 1966-68 Private tuition from Sir William Dobell who encouraged going abroad 1963-65 East Sydney Technical College 1966 Hammersmith Art School, London 1966-68 Byam Shaw School, London - awarded Painting Prize and Diploma of Fine Art SOLO EXHIBITION 1971 Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne; Max Adams Gallery, Adelaide 1975 Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1977 Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1978 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide 1979 Commonwealth Institute, London; Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1982 Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1987 Tynte Gallery, Adelaide 1988 Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1991 Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney 1993 BMG ART, Adelaide 1994 Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney GROUP EXHIBITIONS   Alice Spring Prize Exhibition, Alice Springs   Avant Galleries, Melbourne   Bloomfield Galleries, Sydney   CAS Temporary Exhibition, Adelaide   Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle   Edwin Pollard Gallery, London   Festival of Life, Festival Exhibition, Adelaide   Inaugural Exhibition of South Australian Artists, Festival Centre Gallery, Adelaide   Invitation Exhibition, Fremantle   Kym Bonython Gallery, Adelaide   Max Adams Gallery, Adelaide   Real Super Real Exhibition, Albury Wadonga Regional Gallery   South Australian Gallery Centenary Exhibition, Adelaide   Sydney Opera House Galleries Exhibition, Sydney   10 South Australian Artists, Royal Society Exhibition, Adelaide   Travelodge Prize Exhibition, Melbourne   Tynte Gallery, Adelaide REPRESENTED BHP Collection, Melbourne Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Art and Australia, Volume 9, No. 1, 1971, p.22. Bonython, Kym, Modern Australian Painting 1970-1975, Rigby, 1976, plate 104. Vantage, Volume 1, No. 1, 1977, front cover. Bonython, Kym, Modern Australian Painting 1975-1980, Rigby, 1980, plate 39. Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Boolarong Publications, 1984, p.202. McCulloch, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen and Unwin, 1984, p.512. Germaine, Max, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Boolarong Publications, 1990. McCulloch, Susan and McCulloch, Alan, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen and Unwin, 1994, p.512. © All images, text and website design are protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Images, text and design may not be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owner/s. This page updated 19 September 2007. 2001-2007 Odana Editions Pty Ltd.