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The John Dyer Gallery in association with Hibell in Japan has just returned from a highly successful tour of four of Japan's major cities, Kyoto, Kobe, Osaka & Tokyo . An exhibition titled "Happy Summer Paradise" has been on tour in nine of Japan's most prestigious gallery spaces across these cities and John Dyer made personal appearances at six of the venues.

Above: John Dyer in Ginza, Tokyo with his new triptych "Love Story" which is proving popular with the Collectors in Japan.

One of the galleries is in the world famous 'Matsuya' store in the Ginza district of Tokyo. This store and the district are the equivalent of Park Avenue in New York and is the center for business and high quality retail and art outlets.

"This has been a fantastic experience for me - people have travelled from all over Japan to meet me on the tour and it has been incredibly interesting to listen to my new Japanese collectors discussing my work. We have launched a vibrant new range of limited edition prints in Japan to accompany the exhibition and the images of St Ives and the Helford Passage are very popular. Many collectors are buying my print of the Helford Passage with a yellow sky to hang on the west wall of their homes as in Japan a yellow sky hung on the West will will bring the family good fortune." John Dyer

"The Japanese are very familiar with the UK, London and Harry Potter but they have never come across Cornwall before so this has been an amazing opportunity to promote Cornwall as a destination. We are sure that many people from Japan will now be looking into traveling to Cornwall as a holiday destination to track down the famous John Dyer Seagulls and the amazing tropical plants that grow here. With nine galleries in the top retail locations in Japan actively promoting John's work and Cornwall as a destination this is bound to have an impact." The John Dyer Gallery.

"We are delighted with the work of John Dyer, in Japan we usually promote western artists for 3 to 5 years before embarking on a tour, but in the case of John's work this has been put together in under a year due to the popularity of his unique style of work. We already have plans to expand the range and we have commissioned the artist to paint a new painting called 'St Ives Happy New Year' that we will launch in December" Art Director of Hibell

The National Trust have embarked on an exciting and creative project to promote the work of Cornish artists. This July they will be launching www.trelissickgallery.co.uk and John Dyer has been selected to hold the launch exhibition.

"This is a fantastic project that I am delighted to be associated with. I have a really good working relationship with the National trust and to have been selected to front their new arts web site is amazing." John Dyer 2007.

John Dyer has a long established relationship with large organisations in the UK and abroad and this type of project typifies the way in which he and The John Dyer Gallery work collaborativley to bring his vision of the world to a wider audience.

The new web site will be launched on July 21st to celebrate a collection of new John Dyer paintings that will be exhibited at Trelissick gallery during the summer.

www.trelissickgallery.co.uk

Book Signing at Trelissick Gallery, Cornwall

Meet the artist at a special book signing event at one of Cornwall's top National Trust properties

Saturday 28th July from 11am to 2pm at Trelissick Gallery, Truro, Cornwall.

New book about John Dyer by Brian Stewart, the award winning curator of the Falmouth Art Gallery

This is a fantastic book featuring many of John's most famous works from around Cornwall and the world. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful colour reproductions and designed by the author Brian Stewart and artist John Dyer. 'A Vision of Paradise' will delight not only fans of John's paintings but everybody who has a passion for life.

Available now at £9.99 plus postage and packing from The John Dyer Gallery.
Telephone: 0777 339 7503

Cornish Man 17 May 2007

"The paintings of John Dyer and Joanne Short almost completely sold out at an exhibition at the Island Cafe at St Michael's Mount on Friday.Thousands of pounds worth of work was sold almost immediately, with some invited guests running to their chosen paintings as they entered the cafe exhibition. John Dyer, resident painter at the Eden project, is preparing for his next painting expedition in Peru when he will paint the potato harvest."


Above: John Dyer & Joanne Short drive across to open the exhibition on the Mount as hundreds of collectors follow

Cornish Man 10 May 2007

PENWITH PORTRAIT


The Mount is definitely a magical place of childhood dreams; a place where dreams don't disappear as you grow up. We spent a fantastic time as a family on this fairytale island - perfect evenings in the garden watching the full moon shimmering across still water with the castle rising into the dark blue sky. While living on the island we were lucky enough to feel part of this very special island community which made us so welcome. Our time on the island exploring and dreaming has resulted in an exhibition of paintings which I hope captures the essence of the island, the sheer thrill of being alive and the wonderment of being a child.'Sailing and Swooping around the Mount, by John Dyer, priced at £2,750, can be seen in the exhibitionPaintings from a Small Island, which is on show from tomorrow (Friday, May 11) at the Island Cafe on St Michael's Mount and which features the work of John Dyer and Joanne Short.

To help to celebrate the 2007 Tresco Marathon the Island Hotel on Tresco have acquired the painting "Everyone's a Winner" by artist John Dyer.

The painting features in the new book about John's work 'A Vision of Paradise' by Brian Stewart and is one of John Dyer's key celebration paintings.

The painting was completed last year during the 2006 marathon while John Dyer was resident artist on the island and depicts the finishing line which is just outside the hotel. All of the celebrity runners are depicted in the painting with Bill Bryson being easy to spot in his yellow top with 'Bill' on his shirt. Jenny Agutter can also be spotted on the left of the painting and is that Charlie Dimock floating topless out in the bay !

Dara O'Kearney who won the race can be seen in the front of the painting celebrating with number 86 on his shirt.

The Tresco Marathon came in to being seven years ago when Peter Hingston and then Island Hotel manager Philip Callan decided that they would like to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, as Peter's daughter Jade, now aged eight, suffers from this debilitating and life-shortening disease. Total funds raised to date exceed £300k.

"The Tresco marathon was such an amazing and fun event to watch and paint. The island is a very challenging place to run around, but the support that the runners get from the community and the Tresco estate is fantastic. It was a real joy painting this and I hope that it comes to epitomize this amazing event." John Dyer.

It is hoped that at some point prints of the painting might be made available to support the Cystic Fibrosis trust, but in the first instance the artist, The John Dyer Gallery and the Island Hotel on Tresco are all delighted that this painting will now be on public display for all of the runners to enjoy and to take inspiration from.

The Tresco Estate have a number of John Dyer original paintings; with two of the largest hung at the heliport on the island.

During May 2006 John Dyer and Joanne Short were the Artists in Residence for St. Michael's Mount. Working with the island Manager and the St. Aubyn family the two artists have realised an exciting and unique new set of work which will be exhibited on the Mount at the end of the year.

The BBC did four live transmissions from the Mount, using their satellite outside broadcast unit to capture the artists at work, and the resulting footage has inspired many to walk the causeway to find out more about this magical island.

BBC News Page on the residency.

Above: 'Blue Sky, Tresco" 18 x 24 inches acrylic on canvas. Framed.
Painted for Children In Need. Courtesy of 'The John Dyer Gallery'. www.johndyergallery.co.uk. ©John Dyer

The BBC asked John Dyer if he would consider donating an original painting to support 'Children In Need' 2005.

'I am delighted to be able to support this wonderful charity. The painting 'Blue Sky, Tresco' is of one of my favourite places and a place that my family feels relaxed, happy and safe in. Children In Need raises awareness and money to support children that sometimes miss out on those qualities in life and I hope that the auction of this original painting will help in some way to support children in need.'

John Dyer November 2005

After much bidding the painting sold for £1505

"The Painted Garden"
ITV 1 Westcountry Television Series starts on Thursday 10th November at 7.30pm

Programmes featuring John are on:

Thursday 17th November: Antony House
Thursday 8th December: Tresco Abbey Gardens


Above: John, Joanne and Martha-Lilly in Tresco Abbey Gardens during the fiming of 'The Painted Garden' for ITV Westcountry.

During April and May John has be joined by a film crew from ITV who have filmed him paintingin the garden at Antony House, and The Tresco Abbey Gardens. The footage will form part of a new series exploring artists and gardens which is due to be screened in October 2005. The film crew also filmed John's wife Joanne Short and daughter Martha-Lilly Dyer painting in Tresco Abbey Gardens.

"THE PAINTED GARDEN takes us on a journey through some of the most important gardens in the region and beyond which continue to inspire today. The series also takes the opportunity to celebrate the work of some of the region's most popular artists, such as John Dyer, who has been greatly inspired by the colours and structures of gardens. Joining Chris are artist garden historian Toby Musgrave, art historian Sam Smiles and garden designer Penelope Hobhouse."

THE PAINTED GARDEN is an ITV Westcountry production. It is directed and produced by Grace Kitto.

Above: 'Garden of Eden' 300 piece wooden art jigsaw by Silverton Puzzles & John Dyer. RRP £25 plus postage.

Available from The Eden Project and The John Dyer Gallery

"The new puzzle that has been created of my 'Garden of Eden' painting that hangs in the Eden Project's permanent collection, is an amazing piece of engineering, It is beautifully produced and includes a fantastic set of 'drawings' interpreted into puzzle pieces, I have even sneaked in a drawing of Tim Smit and 'Bella' the wonderful dog that frequents Eden's offices. For me I hope the puzzle will make people really look at my work, and through this look at the huge range of plants at Eden. For me the puzzle helps to highlight 'diversity' and makes people connect to the fantastic biomes of Eden in the most wonderful and powerful way possible - through sheer good fun and play." John Dyer

IRRI, The International Rice Research Institute are launching 'The Art of John Dyer, Rice is Life' Calendar for 2006.
The calendar designed and produced by IRRI in the Philippines will be distributed across Asia as part of their work to raise public awarness about the ethno-botanical relationships of the crop Rice. The calendar is in three languages and features 6 of John Dyer's paintings that he completed in the field during the year of rice in 2004 in the Philippines.

"The Calendar is another project that firmly places John's work at the forefront of contemporary art and current environmental issues and adds to John's reputation as one of the UK's leading artists."

Further details to follow.

Celebrating the diversity of bananas


John's paintings of banana farming in Costa Rica are to be used as part of a new exhibit by the International Network for the improvement of Banana and Plantain. The exhibit will be shown at the Eden Project next summer ,2006, but the inauguration at the Central Library of Leuven in Belgium is on 18 October at 14h00. After Belgium the exhibit will move to the Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens until the end of the Science Festival.

"We hope that this is only the beginnning of a long life for the exhibit"
Anne Vezina the Science writer and Public awareness specialist at INIBAP

Above: The exhibition panel. "What's in a Name?" drawing attention to the crop banana featuring John's paintings produced on location in Costa Rica.

http://www.inibap.org/exhibit/exhibit7_en.htm

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, INIBAP, in collaboration with an international agricultural research centre (CIRAD), a Belgian university (K.U.Leuven) and a ground-breaking British educational charity focusing on plants and people (Eden Project), have produced the exhibition "No end to the banana", inaugurated in Leuven, Belgium, in 2005. "No end to the banana" is a travelling exhibition that uses the banana as a vehicle to talk about genetic diversity and how research and development can use the existing diversity to produce better and healthier bananas for consumers everywhere and, at the same time, help improve the livelihoods of banana farmers.

The text from the panel:

"In Spanish, the banana became known as platano, whereas most European languages adopted the word bananaborrowed from one of the African languages spoken around the Gulf of Guinea. Nobody knows why the Spaniards called the banana platano, a name they were already using to designate the plane tree. They might have been inspired by to the local names for bananas (one of the words for bananas in the Arawak and Carib languages of western South America is palatano). This would support the hypothesis that the banana arrived before the Spaniards. The alternative is that the indigenous people borrowed the Spanish word. "

John's latest exhibition on the island of Tresco has been a huge success. The gallery had kept it secret from John that virtually the entire catalogue had pre-sold prior to the private view.

"The phones have been ringing ever since the catalogue was posted, we have had a huge response to John's work" Gallery Tresco

"It is amazing to find the entire collection sold before the opening, Gallery Tresco have done a brilliant job and have some great collectors of my work on their gallery list." John Dyer.

VIEW THE EXHIBITION


Above: John Dyer and the Gallery Tresco Team at the opening of his exhibition on August 15th 2005

Above: Gallery Tresco distributed posters all around the island, and placed catalogues in every room.

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'Africa Calling'
New painting for Live 8

Peter Hampel the art director of Eden and John Dyer, Eden's 'Painter in Residence' worked together to facilitate John painting a new 'iconic' painting of this huge event. Signed prints available now from The John Dyer Gallery.

Above: John Dyer working on "Africa Calling".

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State of the Art 'Widget Exhibition'


Click to download

Available now a new 'Widget' for Apple's Mac OS X Tiger 'Dashboard'. Developed by Andrew Hedges in the USA the widget offers an exhibition of 40 of John's best paintings and their associated stories. The widget opens up with a splash screen featuring John's Seagull and can be 'flipped' over to reveal a series of links to John's work. The widget links to Eden and Alan Titchmarsh's web sites as well as www.johndyer.info

Widget Exhibition. The Art of John Dyer
Now you can have 40 of John Dyer's amazing paintings on your dashboard. Arrange them across your screen to hang your very own exhibition. The Widget contains paintings of Alan Titchmarsh's and Kim Wilde's gardens, many from the iconic Eden Project in the UK, including John's latest painting for Live 8, as well as paintings from Costa Rica, the Philippines, France, Italy and the UK. The widget can be flipped over to reveal links to the fascinating ethno-botanical stories behind John's work. Click to download
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August 2005:
"The West We Like Best"
ITV Westcountry Television Sunday 7th August at 6pm

In the region's biggest ever poll of local tastes The Eden Project comes through as a clear winner as the best day out. John is interviewed in the biomes with his paintings as part of this new six-part series that will screen in August.

Presented by Westcountry Live's Julie Fisher and produced by independent production company Televisionary.

October 2005:
"The Painted Garden"
ITV Westcountry Television


Above: John, Joanne and Martha-Lilly in Tresco Abbey Gardens during the fiming of 'The Painted Garden' for ITV Westcountry.

During April and May John has be joined by a film crew from ITV who have filmed him paintingin the garden at Antony House, and The Tresco Abbey Gardens. The footage will form part of a new series exploring artists and gardens which is due to be screened in October 2005. The film crew also filmed John's wife Joanne Short and daughter Martha-Lilly Dyer painting in Tresco Abbey Gardens.

Further details to follow when available.
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'Welcome Home Ellen'
New painting sold within 30 minutes of release.


Above: "Wecome Home Ellen" 24 x 36 inches acrylic on board. £1450. SOLD

John's painting of Ellen MacArthur's historic return to Falmouth sold within 30 minutes of release. Ellen can be seen on the front of 'B&Q', while crowds of people watch from the shore, the air and the many many boats that took to the water.

The painting was featured on ITV westcountry on 15th February.

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Above: 'Amazing Mayhem in the Maze in May, Glendurgan Garden" 33 x 40 inches acrylic on board

The painting above has been purchased by the National Trust to be hung on permanent display at Glendurgan Gardens. Both the trust and the artist John Dyer are delighted. You will be able to see the painting at the visitors entrance to the gardens from mid April 2005.

"It is a very special painting of one of the most entertaining, visually exciting and historically important gardens in Cornwall, and for the National Trust and the team at Glendurgan to be so inspired by it that they wish to own it is not only very exciting, but a real honour." John Dyer 2005.

Above: John Dyer in the maze at Glendurgan.
Photo copyright David Brenchley.

Steven Porter, Head Gardener at Glendurgan says:

"We were mesmerised by the painting when we first saw it and we are over the moon to now have it on display at Glendurgan. It will prove to be popular with our visitors, and hopefully be an image that people will want to take home with them. We are also using the painting to kick-start a collaboration with King Charles Primary School in Falmouth, of which John is a governor. We aim to develop the pupil's interest in plants, gardening and the environment. It is hoped that this painting will inspire the children from this and other schools to paint and take an active and creative interest in the garden."

Above: John Dyer and Steven Porter in the maze at Glendurgan.
Photo copyright David Brenchley.

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An exhibition of John's latest ethno-botanical paintings following the Rice Harvest will open at Eden at the end of September 2004.

'Rice is Life'Exhibition
Exhibition on www.GalleryCornwall.co.uk
and exhibited at the Eden Project.

Above: The exhibition was held at the entrance to the HTB at Eden. the exhibition is now closed.
Click to view the paintings
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An Original painting by John Dyer is to be auctioned to raise funds for Rainforest Rescue International in October 2004.

Click for full details.
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A Garden Portrait of Kim Wilde
"I have always had immense respect for anyone who chooses to take time to interpret out world for us through painting, and feel especially privileged to have hosted such an inspired artist in our back garden! " Kim Wilde

Click here to download an article written by John and Kim in pdf format.

720kb Originally published in 'Eden Friends' '

John spent a week with Kim Wilde painting her beautiful garden.

John Dyer by Kim Wilde

"John arrived on a beautiful summers day, just as dumper trucks and diggers noisily invaded the garden. A long awaited 'tropical garden' was going to be built the same week as our 'artist in residence' had come to paint, and I was worried the mayhem might distract him. He instantly put us at our ease, and wandered off into the garden to find a place to sit and paint. Each day he arrived early, and painted huge canvases full of vibrant colour, and every day we were entranced. Our children were captivated not only by the paintings, but by John himself who took time to involve them. The results were magical, and perfectly captured the special atmosphere we feel living in this beautiful place, on a hill somewhere in Hertfordshire. I have always had immense respect for anyone who chooses to take time to interpret out world for us through painting, and feel especially privileged to have hosted such an inspired artist in our back garden! My lasting memory of him will be of him and his wife Jo, jiving wildly at the party which we threw to celebrate the new garden. His paintings decorated our home for the night, but I would have gladly have given them a home for life!"

Kim Wilde 2003

John Dyer was invited by Portheven School to open their new mural based on his work. The children have spent many weeks planning and painting the mural which forms the focal point for their courtyard garden area.

John was presented with wonderful flowers, tea and homemade cakes.

"It is such a privilege to see my work translated in this way - and to be able to come and see the mural is fantastic. The children have obviously had a great time doing this and it must have benefitted them enormously. Porthleven school should feel very proud of their creativity and drive"

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This special collection was launched at Gardeners' World Live by Alan Titchmarsh Products and includes an exciting new range of signed limited edition prints that will be available across the UK and by mail order from the company. John paintied at Gardeners' World Live as their resident artist for 2004

Click to view photos from the show

Click to view the new print range
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An original painting by John Dyer, titled 'Cornish Fancies' is to be sold at auction to help to raise funds for the West Cornwall Art Archive. SOLD

The Art Auction will include works by many of Cornwall's leading artists - including work by Joanne Short.

There will be an auction catalogue available and telephone bids are normally accepted.
Full details from WH Lane, Queens Road, Penzance, Telephone: 01736 361447.
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Details of the project

Save the Children asked John Dyer to help them to launch the 'Beat Poverty' campaign at the Eden Project on 7 October 2003. Visitors to the project on the day saw John at work in the Humid Tropics Biome working on a new Eden painting highlighting the importance of rice.

Left: John Dyer at work on 'Rice and Hope'. Click for more images. Each person that signed up to the campaign on the day at Eden was included in the painting. The painting, 'Rice and Hope', measures 33 x 40 inches, acrylic on board, and is framed. It is full of life and colour.

Launching the International Year of Rice 2004, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Dr Jacques Diouf, said that "rice is the staple food for over half of the world's population" but warned that "its production is facing serious constraints."

The painting will be sold by auction - full details will be available soon.

100 limited edition prints are also available, each priced £75 plus £5 postage and packing.
Please email Janet Greaves-Stocker for details of how to obtain one of these very limited prints. ALL PROCEEDS from the sale of the painting and prints are going to Save The Children. Janet will also be able to give further information about the auction.

John Dyer is well known for his exuberant and brightly coloured paintings and is now one of Cornwall's best known artists. He has kindly offered this painting to be sold to raise funds for Save the Children. You can find out more about his work at www.johndyer.info .

Further details of the campaign can be found at: http://www.beatpoverty.org/

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"To Eden and Beyond..."

A Talk by John Dyer and David Ashe Thursday 25th September 2003 at The Eden Project, Cornwall SOLD OUT

"Last January, many eden Friends had the opportunity of hearing about our Resident Artist John Dyer's latest paintings. A special evening, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh was both entertaining and informative. Since then John has been involved in some fascinating work, and has agreed to return to Eden to share his new experiences.

'I was asked to paint bananas, and thought it would be great to see them in their natural habitat; before long I found myself in the jungle surrounded by bugs'
John Dyer.

John flew to Costa Rica with film maker, photographer and presenter David Ashe of iCapture Productions. David will be joining John on stage to talk about their amazing trip, giving us a unique insight into John's life and paintings. The stories of their experience not only bring out the artistic side of the expedition, but also help us to understand the difficulties and some of the humour that a trip like this often brings.

The talk will contain excerpts from the film of the trip, images of the paintings, and a chance to ask John and David questions."

Text originally published in Eden Friends Magazine Summer 2003.

'Jungle Bananas'
24 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas

BBC Web Site Link

Read the INIBAP 2002 annual report featuring paintings by John Dyer.
Click to download 5.1mb pdf file

"We asked John Dyer to paint bananas because they are a smallholder crop - grown in people's back gardens and farms along with lots of other fruits and vegetables. John's pictures are all about diversity and bringing out what might pass unseen. In this case, it seems to have been scorpions!"

Charlotte Lusty, International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain.www.inibap.org

"We started each day at 5:30 am, as dawn broke, and the night sounds of the jungle quietened down. While John painted I watched, intrigued by how he would stand in front of a blank canvas and appear to perform a mystical dance waving a dry paintbrush around, as he began to 'see' what the painting might become. I was fascinated to watch the colour appear and the literally brilliant images emerge."

David Ashe

John Dyer's paintings of crops are being put to good use by combining them with facts and information provided by the Eden Project.

The "Painted Plants" site is hosted on Alan Titchmarsh's web site and provides a great link between Eden, John and Alan.

The crops featured on the site include Rice, Banana, Olives, Coconuts, Sunflowers and many others.

Follow this link to view John's Crop paintings with Plant information from Eden.

Information kindly provide by Eden and hosted by AlanTitchmarsh.com

eBay, the worlds online auction house, occasionally has John Dyer posters and limited edition prints listed.

If you are searching for a poster or print, or want an edition that has sold out this maybe the place to look. Just type 'John Dyer' in the search engine on eBay or use this automatic link SEARCH eBAY NOW to see what is currently available.

You may always contact www.johndyer.info if you want the original details and price of any item found or posters that are now out of print.

"One of the UK's most exciting contemporary artists. " alantitchmarsh.com

John Dyer has been woking with Alan Titchmarsh and Alan Titchmarsh Products Ltd to redesign
www.alantitchmarsh.com

The new site will feature John's paintings and is the start of an exciting series of work that combines ' Painting and Planting'

Further information will be available soon.

Launch Date Friday 31st January 2003

Click here to visit Alan's new site

Over 400 people applied for tickets within 48hrs - the fastest selling Friends Event at Eden ever !

Thursday 9th January 2003 at The Eden Project. Tickets £15

Painting and Planting- Limited Edition Prints and Book launch

John Dyer, Eden's painter in residence, has teamed up with Alan Titchmarsh to produce a unique series of paintings exploring 'Barleywood' Alan's garden used for the BBC's Gardeners' World programme. John and Alan will be talking about how this work came about and how they found a common link to their enjoyment of the world through the wonder and visual spectacle of plants.

The evening will be the main launch event for the two limited edition prints by John of Alan's garden, which both the artist and Alan Titchmarsh have signed. These prints are being sold with a percentage of the profits going to 'Gardens for Schools' which Alan and his wife Alison set up to enable schools to build much needed gardens.

After the talk there will be an opportunity to meet and talk to both John and Alan and to purchase copies of Alan's new autobiography 'Trowel and Error' which Alan will be able to sig