J A M E S H A R T D Y K E
KIBERA, KENYA. A SOHO HOUSE PROJECT
James, together with three photographers spent time in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya one of the largest slums in the world. The resulting paintings, videos and photographs were shown at Mount Street Galleries during the first part of October 2011 The work was sold to promote and raise funds for a Soho House project in Kibera.
Mount Street Galleries, 94 Mount Street, Mayfair, London, tel: 02074931613.
To read about the project, see videos and view work go to www.lifeinkibera.org
RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
NEXT EXHIBITION ‘LANDSCAPE’
After several years of eclectic projects James returns to pure ‘landscape’ painting. The exhibition will show a small collection of works based on his travels to the Himalayas, The Atlas Mountains and The Alps at John Mitchell Fine Paintings, 44 Old Bond Street, London.
The exhibition has been postponed until autumn 2012. Dates to be announced.
PRINTS FOR SALE. TRIPTYCH : MI6
Three high quality silk screen prints produced by Coriander Studios are for sale through Mount Street Galleries www.mountsreetgalleries.com , Mayfair, London. The works are based on paintings from James Hart Dyke’s exhibition ‘A year with MI6’.
A YEAR WITH MI6
‘A year with MI6’ marked the centenary of MI6, The British Secret Intelligence Service. James was invited behind the closed doors of MI6 to produce a series of paintings and drawings which were shown at Mount Street Galleries, Mount Street, Mayfair, London in February 2011.
The exhibition attracted international media coverage on radio, TV and in the broadsheet newspapers. This included items on the national BBC and ITV news, an interview with Mark Lawson on Front Row BBC Radio 4 and a documentary by CNN.
‘They (the paintings) are very good’
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph, Arts Review, 21.2.11
‘James Bond has finally been replaced by an image that is unglamorous as it is credible-an anonymous person, alone staring through the curtains of a hotel room, waiting and watching.’ Ben Macintyre. The Times Newspaper 15.2.11
Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, New York
The painting ‘Waiting in the hotel room’ was illustrated at a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art, New York.
Design for the official Christmas card for MI6 2011
Santa waiting in the hotel room, watercolour and charcoal on paper 30x20cm
Designs for Buckingham Palace dinners
James was commissioned to produce designs for menus and brochures for two dinners at Buckingham Palace.
copyright © 2012 James Hart Dyke
James in his studio, Southwark, London.
Photograph by Hugh Gilbert www.hughgilbert.com
‘Hart Dykes’ ability to capture the essence of the landscape and the fleeting effects of light and colour place him firmly among the best of the British school of ‘plein air’ painters.’
The Art Newspaper. International Edition
James painting Mount Everest
PAINTINGS FOR SALE
A small selection of paintings are being shown at Mount Street Galleries, 94 Mount Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 2SZ
telephone: +44 20 7493 1613 email: info@mountstreetgalleries.com
PAINTING USED TO FRONT PUBLIC RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN FOR MI6
The British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) has used James’s painting ‘Waiting in the hotel room’ to front their new public recruitment campaign.
NEWS
4th
February 2012
