Kit Glaisyer – The Cinematic Landscape
Renowned Bridport artist Kit Glaisyer is presenting his 2nd exhibition at the Jubilee Hall, Poundbury with a 12-day exhibition of his sublime West Dorset landscape paintings from Weds 16 – Sun 27 October. The exhibition offers a captivating journey through West Dorset in a series of richly engaging oil paintings that vividly capture the very essence of Hardy country.
Kit is an established artist, twice winning ‘Highly Commended’ at the Marshwood Arts Awards, selected for Dorset Magazine Landscape Painter of the Year, and a finalist in the Holburne Painting Prize. He grew up in rural Dorset, learning to paint alongside his father before winning an Art Scholarship to Sherborne School. After college in Bournemouth & Farnham, he moved to London, exhibiting with Suzanne Ruggles Gallery on the Kings Road, Chelsea. A few years later he returned to live in Bridport, where he now runs his own gallery at 11 Downes Street, which he opens every Saturday from 10am to 4pm.
His painting process begins with an Impressionist touch, capturing the immediacy of a fleeting moment. He then methodically applies thin paint layers over several weeks or months, creating vibrant tapestries of light & colour, a patient approach that harks back to 19th-century European Romantic artists and the British landscape tradition of JMW Turner & John Constable.
In ‘Cinematic Landscape Paintings,’ Kit offers a moving visual journey, presenting a lively contemporary expression evocative of Claude Monet, David Hockney, and Gerhard Richter.
