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Jimmy Dyer
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Jimmy Dyer is
dedicated to communicating through his art the beauty that he
sees in life. He has a knack for finding captivating
landscapes and his colorful light-filled images represent
timeless subjects from around the world. He believes it is
important to paint directly from life to create art with
integrity and energy, a practice he lives by today. Dyer says,
“I love the challenge of trying to capture many different things
at once: the effects of light, form, an unusual design, the
magic of nature, and the power of the human face and form. I
especially love trying to capture the effects of sunlight.”
Dyer developed his career under the influence of some of
America’s finest painters while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, and in Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming |
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he had access to an
abundance of spectacular, luminous landscapes. Dyer has found
it necessary to travel in order to maintain vitality and
inspiration, and has since painted in Europe, South America,
Canada, and the Caribbean, as well as subjects from the Pacific
to the Atlantic in the States. He feels that this constant
challenge of new subjects stretches his abilities as an artist
and allows him to return to his favorite subjects with new
knowledge and a fresh eye. Those favorites include the people of
Ecuador, Peru and the Caribbean and the landscapes of Vermont,
Maine, New Mexico, and the Rocky Mountains. Dyer says, “ I am
endlessly fascinated by new people and places and desire to
search them out far and wide. For example, some of my most
revered subjects are the indigenous people of the Andes
Mountains. I remain in awe of the spiritual quality of their
simple, yet difficult lives.” Working in oils, Dyer seeks to
combine the light, color, and “painterliness” of plein-air
painting with the solid drawing and tonal accuracy of more
academic styles of painting. He earned a bachelor of Arts
degree in Art, cum laude from University of Dallas. His art has
been exhibited in numerous shows at The Grapevine Gallery, as
well as the Gilcrease Museum, The National Museum of Wildlife
Art, and The Albuquerque Museum. His work was featured in the
May, 2006 issue of Southwest Art
Magazine and has also appeared in Western Art Digest
and Southwestern Profile magazines. He Currently lives
in Texas with his wife, Amy. |
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