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John Dyer

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I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.


— John Dyer


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I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.


— John Dyer


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I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.


— John Dyer


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I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.


— John Dyer


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I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.


— John Dyer


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I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.


— John Dyer


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I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.


— John Dyer


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In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.


— John Dyer


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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.


— John Dyer


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My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.


— 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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