Kit Glaisyer

The most recent series of works by artist Kit Glaisyer include a number of ambitious panoramic paintings of the west Dorset countryside that exhibit a profound sense of communion with nature and explore the artist's visionary engagement with a metaphysical and emotional experience of landscape.

Painting with oil on canvas & linen, Kit works for 6 to 12 months on each piece, using multiple glazes and a highly refined technique to create powerful evocations of light, space and mood. The paintings inspire a visceral sensation of our integral (though often forgotten) place within the landscape, strongly influenced by the artist's memories of growing up in Dorset - and his subsequent return.

Deliverately avoiding an overtly conceptual or theoretical approach, Kit's paintings never-the-less include subtle references to cinema, literature and music. They also reinvigorate a tradition that goes back to the Dutch 17th Century landscape painters and to the Romantic works of Casper David Friedrich, William Turner, John Constable and the American Hudson River School.

background

Kit grew up in north Dorset, and studied at Bournemouth and Farnham Art Colleges before moving to London in the early 90's. Starting out as a figurative pai...

Education:
1991 Bournemouth & Poole, Foundation Studies.
1993 West Surrey College of A&D, Fine Art
1994 London, setting up my first studio with artists Stuart Free & Justin Hibbs in Finsbury Park, North London.
Studios:
1994-7 Blue Chapel Studios, John Ruskin St. Camberwell South London. 1997-8 Long Lane Studios, Borough, South London. 1998-9 Oakhayes Art Residency, Symondsbury Dorset. 1999- St Michaels Studios Bridport, Dorset