| James Hart Dyke’s paintings are focused on his fascination and passion for ‘landscape.’ Projects and commissions have taken him across the world allowing his work to respond to the many aspects of ‘landscape’, from the tranquillity of painting country houses, the bustle and glamour of accompanying HRH The Prince of Wales as official artist on Royal Tours , physically gruelling expeditions into remote areas of the Himalayas and just recently into the dangers of Baghdad, Iraq. “I have always wished for my painting to engage with the world at a level beyond the pedestrian. Painting is a truly physical activity for me, reflecting my own physical association with the environment. Since the age of eight, when I first started painting after seeing a small oil study by John Constable, the landscape has been central to my work. During the last seven years I have undertaken arduous painting expeditions into remote areas of the Himalayas and recently I have worked in war zones; Baghdad, Iraq and Helmand, Afghanistan. It is within these environments that I have found the narrative for my work; it is where I have engaged with the reality of the sublime. My work is based on the traditions of narrative painting, using fundamental oil on canvas techniques, which I continually strive to ‘perfect’ and to push forward, expanding my vocabulary, allowing me to searching for more elegant and poetic forms of expressions of the real.”- James Hart Dyke Country House Painting. James studied architecture at the Royal College of Art (MA) and at Manchester University (BA Hons). In 1996 he was invited by Sotheby’s to be one of four living artists in a major public exhibition The Artist and the Country House from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day which traced the history of country house painting. He has been commissioned to paint houses in France, Italy, Greece and Russia as well as the UK. For further details on James Hart Dyke’s country house and landscape painting, please call us on (+44) 020 7493 7567 or email david@johnmitchell.net. Example of James's work can been seen by clicking the link at the bottom of this page. Please take time to visit the James Hart Dyke website |
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