Here is a selection of works by the Sculptor, John Jebb. He spent much of his life in the Western USA, working in California and Colorado. In the late 90’s he opened a studio in Portland England, working bi-continently for a decade. Currently he is permanently back in the UK after moving both studios to the little village of Ashton Keynes. This small picturesque Cotswold village in England is near the source of the river Thames, from where it flows East to London.  

John Jebb's Art is figurative; of the human body, identity, relationship, psyche and soul - all manifestations of the same cellular mystery out of which life and the collective unconscious arise. The layers discovered in his imagery allude to many aspects of culture especially of the West. A few writers, notably William Irwin Thompson, Camille Paglia, Rupert Sheldrake and Leonard Schlain, provide fertile reading that speak to the release of the imagination. Indeed it is imagination that underpins the forms he creates.

The American mythologist Joseph Campbell, the great voice of artistic endeavour, in consideration of the work of James Joyce, spoke eloquently of the function of art “revealing through the object created the radiance that stills the viewer who sees a beautiful presentation of a fortunately composed work of art that speaks to the grace in his or her own life.”

Jebb recalls one conversation of many he had in wonderful exchange on philosophies and issues intrinsic to creativity in our time, with his friend and artist the late William Brice who had come across the following text:

“In Brussels, Belgium, in 1520, just a year after Hernan Cortes entered the great Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the German master Albrecht Durer visited an exhibition of treasures the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II had sent to Charles V and was moved to write ‘...In all my life I have never seen anything that has so delighted my heart as did these objects; for there I saw strange works of art and have been left amazed by the subtle inventiveness of the men of far off lands’.“

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