James Mortimer is a UK-based painter and sculptor. He studied sculpture at the Bath School of Art and Design, receiving the Kenneth Armitage Prize for sculpture. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and his work appears in the collections of X Museum Beijing, Bensley Design Bangkok, and the Club and the Ivy in London.

James Mortimer’s paintings depict a luminous land of unfettered, uncomplicated freedom. Fishing, farming, swimming, and rowing: they epitomise the country life in the rudest of health. Beneath this beautiful ideal, however, his characters reveal themselves to be just as base as the animals, as beings utterly governed by their instinctive urges. 

Donated by James Mortimer and James Freeman Gallery

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