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John Dyer

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During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study.


— John Dyer


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I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.


— John Dyer


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I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.


— John Dyer


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I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.


— John Dyer


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I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.


— John Dyer


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I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.


— John Dyer


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I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.


— John Dyer


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I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.


— John Dyer


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I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.


— John Dyer


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Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.


— John Dyer


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About John Dyer






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Dyer’s dislike for Westminster was chronicled in his Journal of Escapes evidenced by the 1714 entry “Ran from school and my father on a box of the ear being given me strolled for three or four days – found at Windsor. As a result Dyer retained such interests and translated his studies into verbal landscape art and saved quotes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost in his commonplace book. iv.

Although Dyer’s popularity was short lived after Grongar Hill William Wordsworth and John Gray praised John Dyer’s imagination and style as having “more of poetry in his imagination than almost any of our number but rough and injudicious. His unsuccessful works include Ruins of Rome The Fleece Country Walk An Epistle To A Friend In Town To Aurelia and The Enquiry. ”.

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