Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Name Jerry Shearing NDD, Central School Diploma
Nationality British
Marital Status Married
Address
Firle Cottage
The Street
Firle near Lewes
BN8 6NS
Telephone 01273 858747
Mobile 07710 428171
Email Address
Education
Educated at Eastbourne College Prep School and Eastbourne College 1953-59
Art and Design Training
Studied architecture at Brighton College of Art 1959-60
Foundation art at Eastbourne School of Art 1960-61
Studied illustration, printmaking and painting at
The Central School of Arts and Crafts 1961-65
Employment
Worked in London as a freelance illustrator 1965-66
In-house illustrator: Astral Marketing, London 1965-66
Creative Designer at provincial advertising agency 1966-67
Design manager: Richard Lonsdale-Hands 1967-68
Design Manager: Allied International Designers (now Design Bridge) 1968-70
Creative designer & account manager at provincial advertising agency 1971-72
Founded Creative Design Workshop ( Later the CDW Partnership) 1973-1990
Co-founded Prisma Audio Visual in Sussex and Umbrella Studios in London 1982 - 1986
Founded Shearing and Partners 1990 - 1993
Founded 48 Fitzroy in Fitzrovia, London (with an international client base) 1993 -2009
Moved to France to work as a full time fine artist 2008 -2013
Returned to Firle to work as a full time landscape artist 2013
Established studio in South West France with Andrea Shearing 2015
Awards
National Diploma in Design 1965
Central School Diploma 1965
Member of Chartered Society of Designers – MCSD 1988
Awarded Registration with Design Council 1991
Light Space Time Online Competition: Seascape - Special Merit Artist 2018
Online Galleries
Awarded an online Residency : Coastal Duet with my wife Andrea Shearing 2019
Exhibitions
Drawings of Sussex windmills for article published by Sussex Life 1964
Battle Arts Festival 1964
Private mural commission: Bexhill, Sussex 1964
Covent Garden Drawing purchased by Holborn Library, London 1965
Battle Arts Festival 1965
Student Exhibition, Lewes 1965
Battle Arts Festival 1966
Commission: Mural– Harrow, London 2012
Art Wave 2013
Art Wave 2014
Pelham House Hotel, Lewes – group exhibition 2015
‘Art in May’ – group exhibition 2015
Art Wave 2015
Cambridge Open Studios – joint exhibition with Andrea Shearing 2015
Christmas Exhibition – 7 members of the Shearing family 2016
Commission: Paintings for Vin Quatre, Bergerac 2016
Art Wave 2016
Commission: Mural for St Mary’s Church, Glynde 2017
‘Urban and Rural Landscapes’ - group exhibition Brick Lane Gallery, London 2017
Art Wave - One Man Exhibition August / September 2017
Murmurations Gallery Winter Open 2017
Flux Exhibition, Chelsea College of Arts ,London 2018
GZ ‘Unusual’ Greenwich, London 2018
Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon First World War 2018
Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon Winter Open 2018
Flux Exhibition, The National Army Museum, Chelsea, London 2019
Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon Coastal Resonances joint exhibition 2019
Cambridge Open Studio 2019
Art Wave, East Sussex 2019
Art Number 23, London 'Synergic' 2019
Direct Art Action Landscaoe 2019
Frisco Gallery,, Vibrant, , Texas, USA 2019
Fusion: Artize Gallery, Palm Springs, USA 2020
Art Fairs
East Art Fair 2017
Oxford International Art Fair 2018
Talented Art Fair London 2018
Basel Art Fair, Switzerland 2018
Chester Art Fair 2018
Chester Art Fair 2019
Brighton Art Fair 2019
Publications
Wotisart Art Magazine 2106