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I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work.

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John Dyer
Age: 58 †
Born: 1699
Born: January 1
Died: 1757
Died: December 15
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I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
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I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
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My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.
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The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
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My optimism for life carried through my work.
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I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
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And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
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I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
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I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.
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I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
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St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
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I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
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In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.
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A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends but he can never go there without Christ.
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I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.
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Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
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I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
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I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.
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