Edwin Hedge – Born 1950 – 2016

Born in Ghent, Edwin Hedge grew up in Highgate, North London, and graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art taught by Sir Anthony Blunt . Much of his life has been spent painting abroad, including the U.S., and several years spent in Africa (Malawi & Kenya), Russia, Malaysia and Egypt.

The main influence on his art has been platonic thought, as expressed in the “uncreated light” of icon painting. He is seen as an artist in the English mystical tradition of Blake, Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Cecil Collins and Burn Jones

His pictures are built up carefully, using egg tempera under painting overlaid with many glazes and scumbles.

Royal Academy Summer Show, 1993- McNeil Fine Art Gallery, Radlett, Herts. 2001/2012 Valor Gallery, Ankara, 1994 Royal Academy Summer Show, 2001 Sanatyapim Gallery, Ankara, 1996 Artists of the Imagination, London. 2002, 2003, 2004 Berkshire Gallery, New York State, 1996 Steiner House, Baker Street, 2002, 2005 Kas Gallery, Istanbul, 1997 Rona Gallery, Mayfair, London, 2003