Jeffrey Dellow was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1949. After leaving school, he worked in the laboratories of Rohm and Haas, a chemical company that manufactured acrylic paint. He left in 1968 to begin art school with a foundation year at St Martin’s School of Art. He then studied at Maidstone College of Art from 1969 to 1971 and at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1972 to 1974, and held the Cheltenham Fellowship in 1974–1975.

In 1976, Dellow’s work was included in the John Moores Exhibition in Liverpool. He showed there again in 1989 and in 1991–1992, when he was a prizewinner. In 1988, he had a solo exhibition at the Castlefield Gallery in Manchester and was a prizewinner in the Athena Awards. That same year, he became Head of Painting at Kingston Polytechnic, now Kingston University. A solo exhibition at the Todd Gallery in London followed in 1989.

In 1990, Dellow traveled to Zimbabwe to attend an artists’ workshop. His abstract paintings reflecting that stay were later shown at deliART in 2001. In 1995, he was a founding member of the Art in Perpetuity Trust in Deptford, South London, and he kept his studio in a former warehouse on Deptford Creek. David Sweet selected his paintings for Delight, which was shown at the John Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, in 1996 and at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, in 1997.

Jeffrey Dellow died in 2024. His work is held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, which holds Marsyas (1982), and Kingston University.

Sources: Blackbird Rook and the Contemporary Art Society