Deirdre Dyson
"Her paintings bare witness to the application she brings to the practise of her art. She remains intensely private whilst showing us what she sees. These pictures are about things we all see every day, but not like this, stopped in their tracks. We stop with her, at this point in her journey, looking at the essentials. We see them in a new light, a light of audacious colour, in an astonishing mixture of presentation and representation, scale and size; she show us too her apprehension and pleasure in the elemental aliveness of her world."
Polly Devlin
Deirdre Dyson trained at the Byam Shaw School of Painting and Drawing and the Wimbledon College of Art. She began her career as a graphic artist in the 1970s and received early recognition for her illustrations in Vogue Magazine. As a painter, she has widely exhibited in solo and shared shows throughout Britain and New York.
She is fascinated by the slight shift of colours that can change the plane of an object. The distinctive and transforming use of colour together with the translation of planes provide her work with a unique quality. The paintings and objects therein demand attention through the sheer joy of expression.
Deirdre has a loyal following of private and corporate collectors, which has led to work consistently selling in group exhibitions throughout Great Britain. In 1997 she enjoyed a sell-out solo exhibition at Simon Capstick-Dale Fine Arts, London followed in 1998 by an equally successful solo show in New York. Her last London solo exhibition was in 2000 with the Grosvenor Gallery.