JOHN DULIEU is an Actor turned Artist.

The shift in commitment from one discipline to the other has turned his passion back onto painting, so more like Actor returned to Artist.
Born and bred in London he works primarily in Acrylic and favours wood panels to canvas.

He works to commissions and annual Art competitions, has had work rejected by some of the most esteemed British Art institutions and for the past five years has been compiling a body of work with the intention of exhibiting and securing a gallery to represent him.

A lifetime of fascination with humanity and the facial landscape has taken him from portraiture, to the intensity of figurative work, with occasional vacations in Sky and Seascapes an antidote to inhabited paintings.

In his late teens John abandoned the restrictive formal art training he was being offered and relegated his development in art to a second string position, then embarked on a working life as a jobbing actor.

Twenty-five years later he came full circle disillusioned with acting he has re-ignited his artists passion. "As an actor I was, like so many of my contemporaries, subject to the lottery that is the audition process and despite years of satisfying performing work I wasnt fulfilling my creative potential."

"As an Artist the creative process and the completing of work is so much more rewarding although finding an audience this way round has proved the greatest challenge to date."

"I have a belief that great art does not require a statement, description or essay to accompany it, surely the art IS the statement. These unnecessarily in-depth narrations explaining what the artist intented or what stimulated the painter to produce what we see are redundant. Save for the title, date and medium used, its the viewers unique interpretation that makes the art so expansive."

I like to work in isolation and at my own pace, not to a rhythm dictated by the subject/sitters availability personally, I am inhibited by the presence of the subject in part because I want the piece to be stimulated by memory and impressions prompted only by the sketches and photographic material I have made, that way my imagination gets a say the process.

My enduring delight is the gradual assembling of every dab of paint, contributing to the completed vision."

JohnD 10-10-10
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