Kit Glaisyer

37. Kit Glaisyer

Oil Painting

Kit Glaisyer is opening his new Studio & Gallery at 11 Downes Street in central Bridport, showcasing his figurative “drip” paintings and evocative West Dorset landscape paintings, which bring a contemporary edge to the traditional Romantic landscape genre, in a series of engaging, immersive, panoramic vistas. He featured in the 2012 Portrait Prize at Bath’s Holburne Museum and was Highly Commended at the Marshwood Arts Awards at Bridport Arts Centre in 2015.

11 Downes Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JR
On foot from central Bridport, head up Downes Street (opposite The Greyhound Hotel, East Street). The Gallery is on the left. Or, park in nearby Wykes Court car park.

07983 465789 ~ kitglaisyer@gmail.com ~ www.kitglaisyer.com
Twitter: @kitglaisyer ~ Facebook: Kit Glaisyer ~ Instagram: @kitglaisyer

www.bridportcontemporary.com

Can you give a brief history of your art practice?
“I started out as a ‘plein air’ painting, going out into the countryside and painting water colours alongside my father (both my parents are talented artists). I then started painting in oils, went to Art College, then went to London, where I became an Abstract painter, eventually showing my work in a Gallery on the Kings Road, in Chelsea. When I returned to Dorset I began to explore more figurative and narrative approaches to painting, and inevitably came back to painting the landscape. I’ve got a 4-minute Video introduction to my Cinematic Landscape series of paintings on my website and on Youtube.”
How would you describe the process by which your artwork takes shape?
“My commissioned paintings tend to take from 6 to 8 months to complete. I do lots of preparatory works, walking around the area I’m going to paint, visiting many times, usually waiting for a ‘magic’ moment when the light inspires an idea for an exciting painting. I then build the painting up using multiple glazes of oil paint over many months. This is a very patient process, which utilises the transparent properties of oil paint to create very diverse atmospheric effects within my paintings, in particular, subtle tonal and colour effects, exploring the dramatic interplay of light and dark, as well as encouraging the viewer to relish the sensual and tactile qualities of paint itself.”
Who and what are your greatest artistic influences?
Artists: Constable, Turner, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Canaletto, the Dutch 17th Century Landscape painters, the European Romantic painters, Casper David Friedrich, the American Hudson River School, Corot, Cezanne, Soutine, Van Gogh, Picasso, Edward Hopper, Warhol, Koons, Hirst. Writers: Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carol, CS Lewis, Richard Adams. Film: Wim Wenders, the Coen Brothers, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan.