Graham Dean

Born Birkenhead Dec 1951
Lives and works in Brighton, England and Umbria, Italy

"Graham Dean's paintings use the body and structures such as buildings and boats to convey ideas, emotions, memory and psychological states. He turns on its head the conventional use of watercolour calling his work 'reverse archaeology'. Contrasting layers of paint are laid seperately onto handmade Indian paper. He has developed a unique technique where each individual sheet has undergone a process of tearing, ripping and overlapping in order to create the final composition, corresponding with the multiple layering and armouring that make up the human form. "

Laird School of Art, Birkenhead 1968-70
Bristol Polytechnic, Faculty of Art and Design 1970-73
Over 50 solo shows and several hundred mixed exhibitions since 1974. The paintings are in contless public and private collections .Please see web site for more details.,