ABOUT KIT GLAISYER

“Kit Glaisyer's mesmerizing West Dorset landscape paintings bring a contemporary twist to the traditional genre of the romantic landscape. Most of his paintings take at least six months to create, using oil on linen, built up using multiple glazes to capture the subtle and sublime character of this unique corner of Wessex.”

Read a cover feature on me in the Bridport Times magazine September 2018.

My Studio & Gallery

I’m currently based at 11 Downes Street, Bridport, Dorset, UK DT6 3JR

When lockdown lifts, I’ll be opening my Gallery from 11-3pm every Wednesday and Saturday.

My Background

I grew up in an isolated village in North Dorset, in an ancient landscape of rolling hills, deep valleys, dark woods, and rugged farmland. Without a television in the house, I would instead explore the local countryside, and from an early age went out landscape painting alongside my father. After Art College in Bournemouth and Farnham, I moved to London in the early 90's, first working as a figurative painter and then developing an Abstract language of painting after seeing the Gerhard Richter, "Painting in the 90's" exhibition at Anthony D'Offay Gallery in 1995. 

I then moved back to Dorset in 1998, first to the Oakhayes Art Residency in Symondsbury, and then to the town of Bridport the following year. Inspired by the local countryside I returned once again to landscape painting, drawing strongly from my childhood memories and exploring deep into the locality to produce my distinctive new series of landscape paintings.

Between November 2016 to November 2017 I ran a project space at the Garden Gallery, Great Pulteney Street, Bath. From 1999 to 2018 I was based at St Michael’s Studios in Bridport’s Art & Vintage Quarter, before moving to my own studio in Downes Street in 2019.

My Practice

Since 2007 my ideal working method has involved focusing for several months on a series of major paintings, each of which are based on preparatory sketches, photographs, and collages inspired by locations within a 10 mile radius of my studio. This approach allows me to maintain a level of excellence in my practice, often returning to familiar locations in series of paintings that follow nature through the seasons.

You can view my series of Cinematic Dorset Landscapes here.

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For a list of Exhibitions visit my CV.

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