GRAHAM BOYD

ARTIST STATEMENT

“My concern has always been, through colour, to evoke the sensation of luminous space as a parable for inner feeling. I believe that painting is still capable of exceeding all other forms of visual expression in its infinite capacity to be physical, spiritual, autonomous and renewable.”

ARTIST BACKGROUND

Through their vivid representation of movement, colour and structure Graham Boyd’s paintings become the conduit for a lifetime’s compressed memory and emotion. Boyd was born in Bristol in 1928. He studied at Watford School of Art ,NDD and London University Institute of Education, ATD. From 1953-55, he had a two year residency in Rhodesia, and a one year teaching exchange at the University of New Hampshire from 1972-73. He participated in the 2nd Triangle Workshop in New York in 1983 and was the guest artist at the Triangle Workshop held in Barcelona in 1987. In 1995, he was also the guest artist at the International Multi-Media Symposium held in Faial, Azores He was formerly B.A. Fine Art Degree Course Leader and Head of Painting at the University of Hertfordshire 1976-1993 and since that time now paints full time in his Hertfordshire studio where he is surrounded by fields, trees and the rural landscape which are texturally very visible within his recent body of work as are the seasons and their attendant changes of light and colour.

EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

John Moores, Liverpool, 1957
A.I.A. Big Pictures, London, 1958
London Group, 1962, 63
Waddington Gallery, London, 1957-66
Royal Academy, London, 1965, 66, 74
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1968
Arts Council of Great Britain, 1969
Annely Juda “Shapes in Spaces”, 1971
Triangle Workshops in New York and Barcelona, 1983, 87
Sandra Higgins Fine Art, London 1991
“Atlantic Fusion” Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, 1997
“Disruptive Tendencies”, University of Hertforshire, 2001

In all, Graham has twenty solo exhibitions in his career and has participated in numerous groups exhibitions regularly.

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE

Walker Gallery, Liverpool
Trinity College, Oxford
Oxford Centre for Management Studies
University of Hertfordshire
University of the City of London
Triangle Artists, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
Casa da Cultura, Faial, Azores
University of Cambridge
William Underwood Co., Boston
The Catalunya Institute of Contemporary Art, City of Barcelona
B.M.W. Financial Services

Private collections in the UK, USA, Canada, Spain, Zimbabwe, Holland and Portugal.