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John Dyer

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My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.


— John Dyer


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My optimism for life carried through my work.


— John Dyer


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On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.


— John Dyer


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Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.


— John Dyer


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The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.


— John Dyer


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The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.


— John Dyer


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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.


— John Dyer


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The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.


— John Dyer


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While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.


— 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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