Graham Boyd

“My concern has always been, through colour, to evoke the sensation of luminous space as a parable for inner feeling. I believe that painting is still capable of exceeding all other forms of visual expression in its infinite capacity to be physical, spiritual, autonomous and renewable.”

Artist Background:

Graham Boyd was formerly B.A.Hons. Fine Art Degree Course Leader and Head of Painting at the University of Hertfordshire 1976 - 1993. He studied at Watford School of Art and London University Institute of Education, NDD,ATD. Two years residence S. Rhodesia, one year University of New Hampshire teaching exchange 1972-3.
Now painting full time in his Hertfordshire studio.

Exhibitions include:

John Moores: R.A., Arts Council of N. Ireland; Arts Council of G.B.; London Group; A.1.A. Big Pictures; Annely Juda "Shapes in Spaces".
Triangle Artists N.Y. & Barcelona; Waddington Galleries.
31 solo exhibitions.

Collections:

Walker Gallery, Liverpool;
Trinity College, Oxford: Oxford.
Centre for Management Studies:
University of Hertfordshire;
University of the City of London;
University of Cambridge;
Triangle Artists, New York, U.S.A.;
Institute of Contemporary Art, Barcelona;
Casa da Cultura, Faial, Azores;
BMW Financial Services;
The Landmark Trust;
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery

Various private collections, U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Holland, France, Zimbabwe, Portugal, Spain.

International Artists Workshops:

* New York Triangle 1983
* Barcelona Triangle 1987
* Anglo-Dutch; Rounton, N. Yorkshire 1992
* Multi-Media International Artists Symposium, Azores 1995.

The Multi Media Symposium Exhibition travelled to Sociedade Nacionale de Bellas Artes, Lisbon and Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid in 1996 and finally retitled ‘Atlantic Fusion’, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 in 1997.

Recent Exhibitions include:

“deli-Art in Bristol” at St Georges, Brandon Hill, 2002
“Summer Exhibition”, at Lemon St. Gallery, Truro 2002
“Striking Lights” at deli-Art in London 2004 (solo)
“The Energy of Colour” with Sheila Girling, 2003 (solo)
“Confluence” at the Pilgrim Gallery, London, 2004
“The Long Haul” at Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, 2004 (solo)
“The Alchemy of Colour” at the Pavilion Gallery, Chenies Manor, 2004 (solo)
“Dancing with Colour” at the Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall, 2004
Recent paintings. Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall Sept 06 (solo)
Consistently Abstract, group show, Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall, March 06
Courtyard Gallery, Hertford. (solo) 2007
S.E.1 Gallery, Hertford (solo) 2007.
Parndon Mill Gallery,Harlow ( solo ) 2008
Recent Paintings ,The Plough,Shepreth (solo) 2009
' Painting the Sublime' The Campden Gallery (solo). 2009
Summer exhibitions The Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden, Glos. 2008 & 2009.

Recently shown at Bushey Museum,Rudolph Road, VISUAL METAPHORS. Early Works by Graham Boyd.An exhibition of paintings made whilst living and working at Meadow Studios,Bushey between 1955 and 1968 during his transition from figuration to abstraction.

In Spring 2011 he showed his latest paintings at the Watford Museum under the title ,THE PRIMACY OF COLOUR 2011. ...


His new website is now available at www.grahamboyd.co.uk