John Earle

Biography

John Earle is best known for his Seascape/Landscape painting.
He was born in Newcastle in 1955, grew up and was educated here.
He has been exhibiting his paintings regularly since completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Art (1981). He has recently exhibited paintings and sculptures from his Larri Patience Period alongside his seascape paintings at Cooks Hill Gallery Newcastle. He has had over 30 solo exhibitions in Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne and has been in many group exhibitions. He has been hung in the Wynne Prize for landscape painting (Art Gallery of NSW) six times. His work is in public and private collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In 1994 John established his painting studio in Merewether. It is a place open to the public three afternoons a week with a display of his limited edition reproduction prints, or giclees, ceramics and a look inside his painting room with new work in progress.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2018 – John Earle and Larri Patience, Cook’s Hill Galleries, Newcastle.
• 2016 – John Earle Landscapes, cstudios Art Gallery, Newcastle.
• 2015 – Nobby’s Lighthouse Exhibition, Caretaker Cottage #1, Nobby’s Headland, Newcastle.
• 2013 – Victoria’s coastline, Beaumaris Art Group, Beaumaris.
• 2012 – Newcastle, for Merewether High School, John Earle Studio, Newcastle.
• 2011 – Sydney Paintings, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney.
• 2011 – Local Landscapes, for La Valla School, Cambodia, John Earle Studio, Newcastle.
• 2011 – The Newcastle and Bali coastline, for ‘Surfest’, John Earle Studio, Newcastle.
• 2010 – Oceanscapes, for Beyond Blue, John Earle Studio, Newcastle.
• 2010 – Surfing Destinations, for ‘Surfest’, John Earle Studio, Newcastle.
• 2008 – ‘Landscape’, Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney.
• 2006 – ‘Paintings + Graphics’, Gallery 460, Gosford.
• 2004 – ‘Confessions from both sides of a bad brain [brushworks and others from the jetson estate]’, Marlene Antico Fine Arts, Sydney.
• 2004 – ‘Panoramic Vision’, Survey Exhibition at Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle.
• 2001 – Pymble Ladies College, Sydney.
• 1997 – Barry Stern’s Gallery, Sydney.
• 1996 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1995 – Barry Stern’s Gallery, Sydney.
• 1993 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1993 – Valerie Cohen Fine Art, Sydney.
• 1992 – ‘Headlands’, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney.
• 1991 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1990 – Barry Stern’s Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney.
• 1989 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1988 – Barry Stern’s Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney.
• 1987 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1986 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1985 – Barry Stern’s Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney.
• 1984 – Barry Stern’s Gallery, Sydney.
• 1984 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1984 – Tom Silver Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne.
• 1983 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.
• 1983 – Barry Stern’s Exhibiting Gallery, Sydney.
• 1981 – Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle.