Above:
John Dyer painting on the cliffs at Maenporth
near Falmouth.
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Key
Facts.
Born
in 1968, in Somerset. The son of two
painters Ted and Vivien Dyer.
Ted Dyer moved the family to Cornwall
in 1972, and John spent his childhood
in the Cornish Landscape with camera
and drawing books.
John
studied for a BA Hons in Design in
London and during that time travelled
extensivley in the Amazon Rainforest
of Brazil supported by Thames Television.
John
Graduated with an honours degree and
returned to Cornwall to paint and
was immediatley asked by Falmouth
Art School to lecture for them. John
lectured part time for nine years.
In
2000 John was made 'Painter in Residence'
for the Eden Project. A position he
still holds today. His ethno-botanical
work is recognised internationally
by many globally important organisations
and he has spent time painting in
Costa Rica, Italy, France and the
Phillippines for the project.
John
is one of the UK's most widely published
and succesfull artists.
John's
work is held in permanent collections
of Eden, The National Trust, The Tresco
Estate, Save the Children UK and many
important private collections across
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"Fun,
lively and appealing to an audience worldwide, John
Dyer captures the lighter side of life in his colourful
paintings. Recognised for his cheerful reflections
of Cornwall, John has also used the humour and laughter
in his work to highlight many serious causes over
the past five years. Only recently he returned from
the Phillippines where he has been involved in a project
to raise awareness about world poverty. John Dyer
was born in Taunton in 1968 into an artistic family
who inspired him to paint from an early age. He completed
a Foundation Art Course at Falmouth College of Art
in 1987 and went on to gain a BA Hons Degree in Graphic
Design at Middlesex Polytechnic in London."
'I
have lived in Cornwall for most of my life and have
been lucky enough to have grown up surrounded by
art, artists and painting. My father, Ted Dyer,
is a well known painter and it is the influence
and guidance from him that has inspired me to explore
my own paintings and to find my own artistic voice.
I have painted from a very young age, and decided
to study formally at Falmouth Art School and Middlesex
University in a range of visual arts before deciding
to focus on painting. I returned to Cornwall in
1992 and have never looked back.
I have been lucky in that people have always enjoyed
my paintings. I try to focus on the positive elements
of life, the things that inspire me, the song of
life. My work is a natural response to the world
around me, contemporary, and as individual to me
as my handwriting or thumb print.
I hope that I bring part of myself to the viewer
through my work, and that the viewer brings an equal
amount to my paintings - if this happens then I
have succeeded in my aim. I hope that the sum of
the two adds up to far more than I could ever know.'
John Dyer 2002
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