Glenn Badham
Biography	Artwork

 

Glenn Badham has been exhibiting his work since 1994, when he completed his degree in Visual Arts at the De Montfort University at Leicester. Since then, his paintings have been exhibited Nation-wide, and in 2000 his work was shown in Germany at the Kunstverien Lingen and in Paris at the Gallerie Municipal.

Glenn Badham 's paintings have proved popular with both Private and Corporate collectors - two of his paintings are currently hanging in the Baker Street headquarters of the Abbey National Bank. His exhibitions at the Battersea Arts Centre in London; the Brewhouse Arts Centre in Burton on Trent; and The Assembly Rooms in Derby prove that his work has the fresh and original vision of a young British contemporary artist.

In addition to his extensive formal artistic training within the United Kingdom, Glenn Badham spent time studying in Italy in 1996. His mentor whilst in Italy was the renowned Cesare Sartori, a contemporary ceramicist whose entry into the art world was through winning the same International Competition as Pablo Picasso. While in Italy, Glenn's output of preliminary work was prolific and encompassed several hundred drawings, sketches, paintings and ceramic reliefs, all inspired by his travels through the great artistic sites of Italy : Rome, Florence, Venice, Padua, Vicenza and Milan.

It is perhaps this melange of artistic inspirations that accounts for Glenn's highly distinctive style, produced through a fusion of British education and training in the arts and his own independent studies of Italy . The result is an artist who has absorbed the arts of the Italian Renaissance and the Flemish masters yet has entirely identified and welcomed the freedom of artistic expression as seen in the British Modern Art movement. His works are accomplished, confident yet sensitive; his studies leave the viewer desiring to know more of the subject, while the execution of the work reveals a mastery of chiaroscuro, composition and painterly bravura.

In 2000, Raymond Blanc opened le petit Blanc and Glenn was commissioned for a triptych to hang proudly in the new Brasserie.

In 2001 Glenn worked on a project at the London Palladium , painting Josie Lawrence performing in “The King and I” which culminated in a near sell-out show in September 2002

Glenn was invited to view the opening of Parliament in the House of Lords and gave an exhibition in the Queen's gallery to show the seven resulting paintings.