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Information on Beside The Wave Gallery
and The John Dyer Gallery

  Left: "Agapanthus at St Mawes"
By Ted Dyer.
14 x 14 inches, oil on canvas
     
View our latest paintings by John Dyer, Joanne Short and Ted Dyer

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 and Joanne Short.

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. The artist Fred Yates also painted from the building.

In 2007 the gallery was sold.

The contemporary colourist work of John Dyer, Ted Dyer and Joanne Short is now represented by one of Cornwall's most exciting and successful galleries, The John Dyer Gallery, and in Monaco and the Côte d'Azur by Galerie Monaco. Studio visits can also be arranged.

       
Joan Gillchrest   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.
       
       
Jack Pender

Born in 1918
Died 1998

 

 

 

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.

       
       
Fred Yates

Born in 1922
Died 2008

 

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.

       
       
Ted Dyer

Born in 1940

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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.
       
       
Kurt Jackson

Born in 1961

 

Now represented by Lemon Street Gallery, Truro

  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.
       
       
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
       
       
John Dyer

Born in 1968

Now represented by The John Dyer Gallery, Falmouth and Galerie Monaco

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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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