 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. |
| 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. |
| The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me. |
| I paint what I see, not what a camera would see. |
| I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking. |
| I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work. |
| And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Ever charming, ever new, when will the landscape tire the view? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement. |
| 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. |
| Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium. |
