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Jon Groom was born in Wales in 1953, studied art from 1971-1978, up to a Master of Fine Arts degree, awarded by the Chelsea School of Art. He then went to America on a Boise Scholarship from the University of London. Since 1978, Groom's work has been exhibited widely internationally, including London, New York, Munich, Mexico City, and Milan. In 1994, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich showed a comprehensive survey of Groom's work. In 1997, Groom exhibited at the Luis Barragan Museum in Mexico City, and more recently, the Ludwig Museum Koblenz showed Groom's large-scale paintings. This year, Groom's work was on view at Osborne Samuel, London, in the exhibition "Masterpieces of Modern British Art: Selected works from the Derek Williams Trust and National Museum of Wales. "Groom has maintained a studio in Munich since 1988. He has lived for periods in New York and Italy, and until recently spent much of the year in Wales. For the past five years, Groom has traveled and worked extensively throughout and in India.

Groom's work can be divided into three areas: Paintings, Watercolors, and Wall Works (murals and large-scale multi-panel watercolors).Through constant reference to and repetition of a reduced vocabulary, Groom's work could be likened to a mandala or mantra through which it attempts to clarify our visual world. "It is essential to make art whose meaning is profound and that speaks directly to our soul. The visual aspects of geometry as discussed in Plato, the complexity of color and their symbiosis must lead to art that is like food for the soul."

"Jon Groom's works bear witness to this constant engagement with painting, with nature, with reflection on being and beauty. They allow us to participate in the purifications that the artist himself goes through, in the firm will to perfect himself and not to be content with a truth - possibly false - but to give thoughts and views a validity beyond his own subjectivity." (Reifenscheid, Beate, The Transmission of Color, Jon Groom - Between the Light, Prestel Verlag, 2006