Ian Dyke
Ian creates textured and layered abstract compositions on a variety of scales, on wood, paper and canvas. He lives and works on Portland and has exhibited locally in Jackson’s Gallery and Whitestone’s Gallery, as well as venues in Weymouth, Dorchester and the Bridport Arts Centre. He has taken part in Dorset Art Weeks and Artwey Open Studios regularly since 2010. He has been successful in a number of competitions, winning first prize in the Dorchester Arts Centre Open Exhibition in 2011, and being selected for exhibition at the Marshwood Vale Open at Bridport Arts Centre in 2014. He was also shortlisted for the Evolver cover competition in 2014, and exhibited at the Atkinson Gallery at Millfield, Somerset. With increasing confidence and a more assured style Ian entered the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Open Competition in September 2014 and both paintings entered were selected for exhibition at St. Stephen’s Church in Exeter. The pieces drew favourable comments from the Trustees at the Academy as well as from potential buyers. His work has a contemporary flavour whilst maintaining traditional painting techniques that originated in the 1950s, predominantly with the St Ives group in Cornwall. He is particularly interested in the wide range of textural qualities that can be achieved and, for him, surface is as important as colour or composition. Tile adhesive has been used to create contrasting rough and smooth sections in his Portland Series, but texture paste, sandpaper, rags and pure paint have all been employed to create a richness of surface, enhanced by layers of colour and reworked shapes. The process of evolution and change which occurs as the painting takes on it’s own identity is an exciting one. The irregular and the accidental are tempered by constant reassessment and controlled intervention. The end result is always a surprise and this, to Ian’s mind, is justification enough for abstraction in art. There is a story to be told but, as with all great literature, there are layers of meaning and the essence is inferred, not stated.
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