Garry Raymond-Pereira The Collection
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Table of Contents 4-5 Biography 6-9 Interview with the Artist 10-41 The Paintings
“Without wishing to sound dramatic, my life has been and continues to be a devotion to painting. It is the area that I feel most natural and accepted within. Each new work is a challenge, offering up its own character and feel. My aim always being to offer up something of its original source, some form of connection to the human condition, and a continuing investigation into the properties of paint.�
Garry Raymond-Pereira is a landscape artist specialising in painting the Highlands, Wales, the Lake District and the East Anglian countryside. Garry uses hand ground oil pigments and employs many traditional techniques. He makes his preliminary sketches on location, later working them into more refined works, ranging from miniatures to very large oils on canvas. Garry completed his MA in 1998. Since then, he has been a full-time painter winning The Laing prize, The Hunter's prize and the Public Eye prize. He has had many solo shows both in the UK and the States. He has also shown widely at art fairs in London, Singapore, Toronto, Dubai, Hong Kong, Spain, and the USA.
Interview with the Artist
Q. Lets go back to the very beginning... when did you first fall in love with painting? A. I had always made drawings I suppose. But I was awful at most school subjects, apart from art. I especially hated sports and PE. I would sneak off to the art department during PE lessons, it was a sort of refuge area for misfits! But I felt a stomach churning love affair when I was taken by School to the 'Monet in the 90's' exhibition at the Royal Academy I was 16, that was my first love!
Q. And when did you know you were destined to be a professional artist? A. From birth, there was no choice!
Q. Describe a normal day for you. I very much doubt it's a 9-5 profession! A. Well, I tend to get the studio early seven days a week. I have no interest in anything besides painting! It's really an obsession. I drink lots of coffee, and play lots of music and hopefully by the end of the day the canvas will start to look as I envisaged. I go home, and usually have some other project going on there, or some emails to reply to or something like that. And then I go to bed, and think of how to correct the mistakes of that day! Q What inspires you to paint landscapes and seascapes? Can you tell us a little about your process? Where do your works start and how does it develop? A. When I see a stunning landscape, I'm deeply moved, it's very odd but the landscape almost demands me to make some form of painting. And so I take up the challenge and try to do it some justice. I usually start by making small paintings, colour studies and drawings outside, and then take them back to my studio, scale them up and make more substantial paintings, it's a sort of automatic response in the studio- hours will pass and I won't be aware of making the painting really, it just happens. They have lots of layers, so taking time to dry is a long process, but there is no hurry really, they just need to look right!
Q. You often apply your own unique take on this tradition subject by framing or mounting your work in unconventional ways. Can you tell us about this? A. For years I never framed anything, and then I was searching through old holiday snaps of when I was a child and kept coming across family holidays, usually in the Highlands with the old green Morris traveller. The rear doors of the traveller just looked like frames, and so it felt right...Windows are always wood, old and in need of repair, from interesting places. Views are really of the wonderful places I have stayed in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. If I see something that has legs and a personal connection, I will try and incorporate into the work. But it has to be right. Strangely, at the moment I'm using conventional white frames, tidy and neat. I'm pleased.
Q. What has been your greatest professional achievement? A. Well, I won a few big competitions in the past that funded my M.A course (and music collection). But really the art world opens up all sorts of interesting encounters and situations, it's fascinating. And I look at that as achievements really, and of course its good to make a decent picture now and then!
Q. Considering the current situation, can you tell us how lockdown is affecting your livelihood as an artist and whether it is affecting your creative output. A. Being a painter is pretty solitary anyway, so in that respect it's fine. Galleries being closed and art fairs postponed is difficult, usually I'm working to deadlines for shows-that no longer exists! I don't think it has affected my output, I have thousands of location studies I can use as reference. I guess the biggest impact is the not being able to travel to my beloved locations, But absence makes the heart grown fonder!
Q. Tell us a secret A. uh... everything stops at 2 o'clock for the Archers!
All artworks framed in white box frames unless stated otherwise (see example to left.)
High Summer 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel ÂŁ625
Every Day is Springtime 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel ÂŁ625
Dropping Magic 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Tree for First Picnic of the Year 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Finding Spirit Place 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
In a World of Magic Shows 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
New Day 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
There's No Path As Such 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
In Own Time 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Lifting Magic Mists 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel ÂŁ625
Those Majestic Bells 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel ÂŁ625
In Deep Forest Green 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Walking in Spirit Places 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Portrait 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Classic Highland Landscape 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Place to Work Out Ideas 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
They Told Me It Was Retro 33 x 33 cm Oil on Panel £625
Minia
12 x Oil on
£160 All unf
Blakeny Norfolk
Cow Parsley Wood
Gone Fishing
Distant Crofter's Cottage
atures
12 cm n Panel
0 each framed
Dusk
In the Mountains
Sunday Sea
The Illusive Salmon
Wild Gorse
Favourite Oak
To the Summit 90 x 90 cm Oil on Canvas £2900 (unframed)
In Arms so Tight Part 2 88 x 88 cm Oil on Panel £2500
In Arms so Tight Part 1 88 x 88 cm Oil on Panel £2500
Day of Clarity 100 x 100 cm Oil on Canvas £3000 (Unframed)
Bright Crisp Day 60 x 70 cm Oil on Canvas £1500 (Unframed)
Sgt. Pepper's B 80 x 10 Oil om C £260 (Unfram
Back on Patrol 00 cm Canvas 00 med)
After Which You 41 x 5 Oil om £8 (Unfra
u Start to Smile 51 cm m Panel 810 amed)
Wave 20 x Oil om £4 (Unfr
Study 1 30 cm m Panel 425 ramed)
Wave S 20 x 3 Oil om £4 (Unfra
Study 2 30 cm m Panel 425 amed)
Life D 41 x 5 Oil om £8 (Unfra
Days 51 cm m Panel 810 amed)
Backdrop & Cast 30 x 36 cm Oil on Panels in Recalimed Fly Fishing Box £1210
Changing Colours in the Snug Room 56 x 47 cm Oil on Panel in Old Reclaimed Window £1320
Walking wi 28 x 4 Oil on C £9 (Unfra
ith Friends 40 cm Canvas 990 amed)
Picnics by 70 x 5 Oil on C £9 (Unfra
y the Loch 50 cm Canvas 990 amed)
All artworks available to purchase immediately online or over the phone. Call us: 01223 464646 Email us: info@byardart.co.uk Just click the artwork to buy online!
Any work over ÂŁ100 available on the Own Art Scheme.
Free Delivery within 15 miles of gallery for all artworks, and to London for anything over ÂŁ300!