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Jimmy Dyer
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
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 including at the
Gilcrease
Museum
, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, and The Albuquerque Museum. His
work was featured in the May, 2006 issue of Soutwest Art Magazine and has
also appeared in Western Art Digest and Southwestern Profile
magazines. He Currently lives in
Texas
with his wife, Amy.
