The Camberwell Years
This collection of paintings, drawings, and prints represents just a few examples from my time as a student at Camberwell Art School. Most of my student work has either been lost, destroyed, and even stolen by thieves, who if nothing else had great taste. A few were sold and some given away. I didn’t take many photographs. Photography was expensive in those days. Fortunately that is no longer the case, and students can easily, and cheaply, document their work.
![John McSweeney standing in front his paintings in Camberwell art School](https://johnmcsweeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/camb_year2_30.jpg)
These works are chosen from my Foundation year, 1980-1981, and the Fine Art course, 1981-1984. I have omitted prints made during my postgraduate year, 1984-1985. That’s something I may remedy in the future.
The photograph above shows three paintings that were inspired by a trip I made across Death Valley in 1980. My series of paintings, A Broken Land, harks back to this experience.