John Dyer

Who is John Dyer?

John Dyer is an English painter, focussing on colourful landscapes, architecture, gardens and notable events, especially in Cornwall.

Moved to Cornwall in 1972 to Holywell Bay and John attended Cubert County Primary School from 1973 to 1980 and Newquay Tretherras School 1980 to 1986, at both schools with the artist Joanne Short whom he married in 1997. His first published work aged 12 was landscape photography in Amateur Photography magazine. In his Foundation year at Falmouth College of Arts he was already selling images to publishers like Athena. He returned to lecture at Falmouth College of Arts in 1992. John completed his BA Hons Graphic Design studies at Middlesex Polytechnic in London, winning a bursary from Thames TV as best student of his year to photograph and record the Amazon rainforest, the first of many overseas and outdoors painting trips

John Dyer is the official artist for the Cornish section of the www.darwin200.org.uk working with Newquay Zoo and Falmouth Art Gallery, commemorating the arrival of Charles Darwin at the end of his HMS Beagle in Falmouth on 2 October 1836.