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Artists

Gerry Dudgeon

Gerry Dudgeon was born in India in 1952, the family resettled in England a year later. He studied Modern Languages at Cambridge then worked for the Museum of London as an archaeologist for a year, an interest which reveals itself in his later painting study and technique. He went on to study Fine Art (Painting) at Camberwell School of Art and completed his Masters at Reading University, chosen for its leadership at that time by Terry Frost and Adrian Heath.

In 1981 he was awarded a Boise Travelling Scholarship from the Slade School of Art and visited New York to pursue his interest in contemporary American painting. He also admires the St Ives painters, Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton, Ivon Hitchens, the Scottish colourists, and the work of 18th century Indian miniaturists.

He moved from London to West Dorset in 1987 and gave up part-time Art School lecturing in 2002 to concentrate wholly on painting.

Gerry Dudgeon's brilliantly coloured canvases come out of experiences of countries and cultures far away, of Morocco and India, as well as the landscape of his Dorset home. His paintings saturated with vibrant colour, suggest the heat, light and atmosphere of the places where he has journeyed or the richness of the limestone rocks of the Jurassic coast back home. Scraping through the layers of paint he suggests the depth and complexity of Indian culture or the history of the land forms in his view, making links through time to create deeply resonant images.