Jeffery Camp studied at Lowestoft and Ipswich Schools of Art between 1939 and 1940, and subsequently at Edinburgh College of Art under William Gillies from 1941 to 1944. He was awarded an Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship in 1944 and 1945, and a David Murray Bursary for landscape painting in 1946. Camp went on to teach at Chelsea School of Art from 1960 to 1961 and at the Slade School of Art from 1963 to 1988.
Camp’s first solo-exhibitions were held at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1959, 1961 and 1963. Subsequent solo shows were held at New Art Centre, London (1968), a retrospective at the South London Art Gallery (1973), Serpentine Gallery (1978), Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (1986 and 1990) and with Browse & Darby (1993, 1997, 2001). Since then, Jeffery Camp has been represented by Michael Richardson of Art Space Gallery London, and his book ALMANAC - designed and edited by Art Space Gallery - was published in association with the RA in 2010.
Camp was elected a Member of the London Group in 1961. He was a Phillips Prizewinner in 1965 and in 1996 won the Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Camp wrote Draw and Paint (1981, 1986, Dorling Kindersley). He was elected Royal Academician in 1984 (ARA 1974) and lived and worked in London, where his work was regularly exhibited in the Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, most recently in 2012.
Born: 17 April 1923 in Oulton Broad, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Died: 5 April 2020
Nationality: British
Elected ARA: 26 April 1974
Elected RA: 9 May 1984
Elected Senior RA: 1 October 1998
Gender: Male
Preferred media: Painting
2013 Jeffery Camp: The Way to Beachy Head Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Out of Britain National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Out of Britain Bait Al Zubair Museum, Muscat, Oman; Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait City; Athr Galley, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
2010 Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
2007 Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
2006 Long & Ryle, London
2005 Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
2002 Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
2001 Browse & Darby, London
1999 Flowers East, London
1997 Browse & Darby, London
Arts Council of Great Britain
The British Council
Chantrey Bequest
Contemporary Art Society
Department of the Environment
Gloucestershire Education Department
University of London
Manchester Education Department
Norfolk Contemporary Art Society
Norwich Castle Museum
University of Nottingham
The Nuffield Organisation
Tate Gallery
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Harris Museum and Art Gallery
London Transport
A lush palette and distinctive, curved composition combine to seductive effect in this oil by Jeffery Camp RA, one of the Academy’s most senior painters.
Over 550 paintings make up this book’s kaleidoscopic pages. Each work is accompanied by the artist’s comments and astute observations, creating a fascinating document of a life spent studying people and places.