Hybrid Gallery

Artists

Jamie Boyd

Jamie Boyd lives and works in Cornwall, it is his adoptive home and it influences and informs the major part of his painting. Born and brought up in Eastbourne in East Sussex, he moved to Cornwall in 1999 to study for a degree at Falmouth College of Arts, he stayed there to do an MA and completing that gained a residency in Falmouth Docks. He currently paints in a studio overlooking the estuary and gains much of his inspiration from the river and wharves beyond his window.

His work divides into landscape and still life all based on first hand observation. His landscape paintings are concerned with the effect of changing light on the colour and tone of the river, land and sky. Working rapidly in oil or in watercolour as he thinks fit he records a momentary image. Impulsively interacting with the seasonally changing landscape in this way he unveils the poetry and beauty of the Cornish coast.

His boat studies are probably the last studies of Sunbeam Hall boathouse, Falmouth Wharves. These last remaining deep water working wharves left in Falmouth outside the docks are scheduled for demolition and housing development. Boyd's paintings of out of season boats in the setting of the busy river Fal offer a glimpse of wharves life which may soon disappear.

Jamie Boyd has exhibited since 2003 principally in Cornwall and London where he has been identified as a prodigious talent with a strong future ahead of him. Hybrid was pleased to show his work in a two person exhibition in 2007.