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My optimism for life carried through my work.
John Dyer / Artist
Carried
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I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
John Dyer / Artist
Cameras
Paint
Camera
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I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
John Dyer / Artist
Fingers
Paint
Tubes
Apply
Directly
Tube
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I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.
John Dyer / Artist
Ifs
Realised
Wanted
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In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.
John Dyer / Artist
Littles
Movement
World
Parts
Tidal
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The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
John Dyer / Artist
Bigs
Influence
Painting
Big Influence
Me Influence Big
Paintings
Van
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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
John Dyer / Artist
Terrible
Tragedy
Wish
Terrible Thing
Wishing
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I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.
John Dyer / Artist
Colour
Different
Different Colours
Use
Colours
Retain
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I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.
John Dyer / Artist
Optimistic
Bigs
Paint
Want
Bright
Pictures
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And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
John Dyer / Artist
Men
Healthy
Lying
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Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.
John Dyer / Artist
Destroyed
Digital
Magic
Media
Medium
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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 / Artist
Funny
Inspirational
Pleasure
Sail
Sailing
Boats
Pushed
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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 / Artist
Fine
Majority
May
October
Life Work May
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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 / Artist
Energy
Paint
Way
Work Way More
Brush
Cleaner
Colours
Improved
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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 / Artist
Enjoyed
Fun
Good Fun
Long
Paint
Tire
Want
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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 / Artist
Canvas
Enjoy
Leaving
Paint
Shocking
Sometimes
Squeezing
Directly
Immediate
Lump
Onto
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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 / Artist
Artist
Attractive
Landscape
Lifestyle
Pressure
Real
Wander
Deadlines
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A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.
John Dyer / Artist
Men
Heaven
Honor
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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 / Artist
Home
Beach
Cornwall
County
Great Love
Harbour
Love Is
Towns
Love Home Great
Beaches
Enjoying
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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 / Artist
Colour
Impossible
Insomnia
Produce
Range
Selection
Use
Wide
Mine
Mix
Primary
Using
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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 / Artist
Art
Degrees
School
Applied
Consider
Degree
Talented
Directly
Skipping
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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 / Artist
Cornwall
France
Neighbour
Paradise
Return
Tropical
Content
Discovered
Explore
Nearest
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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 / Artist
Firsts
Four
Painter
Painting
Great Deal
Published
Sold
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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 / Artist
Design
College
Decided
Inspired
Paint
Rain
Seen
Brazilian
Colours
Forest
Greatly
Studying
Travels
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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 / Artist
Drawing
Study
Weather
Winter
Photographs
Change Time Work
Drawings
Change Work Time
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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 / Artist
Age
Able
Cornwall
County
Heritage
Proud
Connect
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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 / Artist
Artist
Drawing
Father
Painting
Life Time Age
Artists
Early Age
Spent
Surrounded
Ted
Throughout
Very Early Age
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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 / Artist
Amazing
Space
Departure
Harbour
Most Amazing
Sea
Transformed
Time Space Me
Time Amazing Me
Totally
Amazing Thing
Arrival
Short
Short Space
Tide
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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 / Artist
Moved
Study
Use
Views
Photographs
Express
Fully
Towards
Medium
Personal
Studies
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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 / Artist
Coast
Cornwall
Degrees
Different
London
Moved
Spending
Years
Studied
Life Experience Way
Consequently
Degree
Different Way
Ended
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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 / Artist
Art
Father
Growing Up
Painting
Well Known
Art Work Painting
Effect
Paints
Surrounded
Ted
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And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!
John Dyer / Artist
Journey
Running
Rivers
Sleep
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I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
John Dyer / Artist
Colour
Sand
Sea
Sky
Surface
Unbelievable
Water
White
Across
Me
Every
Surprises
Every Time
Over
Reflects
Sounds
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St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
John Dyer / Artist
Home
Able
Amusing
Favourite
Feet
Path
People
Realising
Water
Across
All Day
Assume
Disappearing
Favourite Place
Walk
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Mine
Mount
Several
Spectacle
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