John Dulieu

John is an Actor turned Artist. The shift in commitment from one discipline to the other has turned his passion back onto painting, so more like Actor returned to Artist.

Born and bred in London he works primarily in Acrylic and favours wood panels to canvas. He works to commissions and personally motivated themes, and has for the past six years been compiling a body of work with the intention of mounting his next solo exhibition .

A lifetime of fascination with humanity and the facial landscape has taken him from portraiture, to the intensity of figurative work, with occasional vacations in Sky and Seascapes, an antidote to inhabited paintings.

In his late teens John abandoned the restrictive formal art training he was being offered and relegated his development in art to a second string position, then embarked on a working life as a jobbing actor.

Twenty-five years later he came full circle - in part satisfied by his achievements and disillusioned with acting's random auditioning process, he re-ignited his artists passion.

"As an actor I was, like so many of my contemporaries, subject to the lottery that is the audition process and despite years of satisfying performing work I wasn't fulfilling my creative po...

Self Taught

'LUST'
Group exhibition at 'LA GALLERIA' Pall Mall London SW1Y 4UY
September 2013

'KALEIDOSCOPE'
at the NEW CAVENDISH CLUB,London W1H 7BS
a group exhibition - October 2012