Garry Pereira
Garry Pereira's strong connection with Caistor-On-Sea, where he spent childhood holidays, inspired his first oil paintings of crashing waves and sand dunes along the Norfolk coast. He has since expanded his repertoire to embrace panoramic views of the Thames and his spiritual homes in bleak mountained areas of Scotland, Wales and the out of season Lake District.
He is a Wordworthian landscape painter who "passionately hates new technology" choosing not to work from photographs but to make studies in oil outside on location, 'en plein air,' in order to be true to what he sees and to capture colours accurately. He adheres to the old adage .."spend a night on Mount Snowden and come down the next morning either a poet or mad.." "The process begins with a location that offers me a dialogue, like an historical dignitary almost requesting to be painted. It's a feeling so intense, it can create goose pimples."
He spends the day at the coast or other site, creating a series of studies, often on pieces of local slate (stuffed into a pocket) which he then takes back to his studio to work into larger canvases. He calls the titles of his paintings 'poems' choosing words with a particular resonance.
He was brought up in Battersea and Wandsworth and gained his BA Degree at Loughborough College of Art and Design and his MA in Fine Art with Distinction at Norwich School of Art in 1998. His first solo exhibition was in London at The Osbourne Studio Gallery in 2013. He also exhibits at the Belgravia Gallery in London, in Norfolk, Penzance, Oxford and in Southwold at The Serena Hall Gallery.
He won the Laing Painting Competition and was awarded The Hunter Scholarship for Fine Art in 1999 and won first prize for painting from The Public Eye National Competition in London in 2005.
He is a Wordworthian landscape painter who "passionately hates new technology" choosing not to work from photographs but to make studies in oil outside on location, 'en plein air,' in order to be true to what he sees and to capture colours accurately. He adheres to the old adage .."spend a night on Mount Snowden and come down the next morning either a poet or mad.." "The process begins with a location that offers me a dialogue, like an historical dignitary almost requesting to be painted. It's a feeling so intense, it can create goose pimples."
He spends the day at the coast or other site, creating a series of studies, often on pieces of local slate (stuffed into a pocket) which he then takes back to his studio to work into larger canvases. He calls the titles of his paintings 'poems' choosing words with a particular resonance.
He was brought up in Battersea and Wandsworth and gained his BA Degree at Loughborough College of Art and Design and his MA in Fine Art with Distinction at Norwich School of Art in 1998. His first solo exhibition was in London at The Osbourne Studio Gallery in 2013. He also exhibits at the Belgravia Gallery in London, in Norfolk, Penzance, Oxford and in Southwold at The Serena Hall Gallery.
He won the Laing Painting Competition and was awarded The Hunter Scholarship for Fine Art in 1999 and won first prize for painting from The Public Eye National Competition in London in 2005.
Garry Pereira. 90cm x 90cm £1900.
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