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Beside The Wave Gallery
Beside The Wave Gallery was founded by the Dyer family in 1989. The gallery was run on the strengths of the family; the paintings of Ted Dyer and John Dyer and the management by Vivien and Lelsy Dyer. The gallery also strongly exhibited the work of Richard Tuff the partner of Lesly at the time and Joanne Short, John's wife.
The gallery quickly became one of Cornwall's most successful galleries and exhibited some of the county's most celebrated artists which we have listed below.
In addition to exhibiting paintings John Dyer designed the internationally known visual identity of the gallery and all printed catalogues and books until 2005.
John Dyer and Joanne Short lived for a period of time above the gallery (as did Richard Tuff) and this had an influence on their work as the gallery has fantastic views across Falmouth harbour.
In 2007 the gallery was sold and it is no longer owned or run by the Dyer family but still contunues to exhibit paintings and ceramics. Beside The Wave continues to operate in Falmouth, but exhibits a different range of more traditional landscape artists.
The contemporary colourist work of the Dyer family is now represented online by one of Cornwall's most exciting and successful online galleries, The John Dyer Gallery, and in Monaco and the Côte d'Azur by Galerie Monaco. Studio visits can also be arranged.
N.B. The work of Ted Dyer and Richard Tuff is still exhibited by Beside The Wave Gallery
The Beside The Wave logo is the copyright John Dyer 1989
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| Joan Gillchrest |
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Joan Gillchrest's vibrant, colourful and poetic paintings belong to the ongoing Cornish naïve tradition of painting. Gillchrest created her own unique style which was a product of design, tonal expression, atmosphere, and beautiful use of paint. She fused child-like innocence with highly sophisticated painting. |
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| Jack Pender |
Born in 1918
Died 1998
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Jack Pender's subject-matter was largely his home fishing village of Mousehole, its boats and people. Aged 12, Pender had sat alongside Christopher Wood, watching him paint 'PZ134' and his work developed a direct and almost abstract quality.
Pender is one of West Cornwall's most notable native talents. |
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| Fred Yates |
Born in 1922
Died 2008
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Fred Yates grew up in a suburb of Manchester. He is untutored, but paints from the heart. Fred paints pictutes from his surroundings, experinces and his past, with Manchester often appearing as a subject. For Fred beauty resided in "simplicity and a child's mind" and in 1969 Fred gave up teaching and moved to Cornwall to enable him to devote all his energy to painting. Fred Yates lived his final years in France. |
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| Ted Dyer |
Born in 1940
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Ted Dyer paintings are still available from Beside The Wave
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Ted Dyer is one of the UK's best known contemporary artists. His work is acclaimed internationally through his many exhibitions, prints, art cards and books. Ted Dyer's work documents his family life within the landscape. Ted Dyer's work is highly collectable and his original oil paintings are true modern classics, captivating in their chose of subject matter and beautiful use of paint. Ted Dyer is the father of artist John Dyer. |
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| Kurt Jackson |
Born in 1961
Now represented by Lemon Street Gallery, Truro |
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Kurt Jackson is the best know of the 'horizon' painters in Cornwall. Kurt's work is widely known and he is one of Cornwall's most prolific and commercially succesful artists. Kurt has exhibited widely and his work has developed to include large scale canvases. Like the artist John Dyer he is also well known for his environmental work and was also a resident artist alongside John Dyer at Eden's Live 8 Concert. |
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| Joanne Short |
Born in 1967
Now represented by The John Dyer Gallery, Falmouth and Galerie Monaco
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Joanne Short is one of Cornwall's most established artists & her paintings are truly unique in their style and construction. They bring to us a strong but gentle view of her world and focus on the beauty, pattern and life that is found in the landscape. She featured in the ITV series 'The Painted Garden' and many collectors marveled at the way she confidently commits paint to her canvas en plein-air. Joanne Short is married to John Dyer |
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| John Dyer |
Born in 1968
Now represented by The John Dyer Gallery, Falmouth and Galerie Monaco
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available for sale
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John Dyer is one of the UK's most exciting and well known plein-air painters. His work is collected internationally and his paintings have been the subject of popular television programmes.John's environmental work studying the ethnobotanical relationships of plants with the Eden Project has firmly placed his work at the forefront of contemporary art and he is one of the UK's best known international environmental artists.
"There is an innocence and freshness to John Dyer's art that follows a tradition in Cornwall that includes the work of Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Fred Yates and Bryan Pearce." Brian Stewart. |
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