Roger Dennis

About the artist

Roger Dennis
Roger Dennis
Roger Dennis

Paint

    Statement

    I am an artist-painter, and tutor of art courses and workshops, working in South Devon and Dartmoor.  I have lived in Ashburton for many years.

    Landscape and landscape-based abstracts are my current main interest. Dartmoor and other local scenes that I know well feature as starting points. They are mainly oils, and sometimes acrylics, although I also enjoy working in watercolour and mixed media in various combinations, and all sorts of drawing.  Current subjects also include Still Life and Figure compositions. 

    I am inspired by a host of painters, some contemporary, but most from the hundred years or so from about 1870 to 1970, that not only continue to excite but to point the way down so many avenues of exploration, rich in ideas and ways of experiencing and responding to the world.

    I tutor several groups, including weekly workshops in my studio in Chudleigh. For more details, see the "Workshops, Tuition and Demonstrations" pages.

     

    Biography

    QUALIFICATIONS
    1973
    MA (Hons), Joint, in Logic-and-Metaphysics with Moral Philosophy. St. Andrews University
    1982
    Dip HE Art And Design in a Social Context. Dartington College of Arts.

    ROGER DENNIS: BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE

    First Two Decades
    1951  Born Bournemouth, early childhood Swanage, then the New Forest,  and later school in Devon. 
    1962  The Royal Drawing Society Exhibition, won a Highly Commended distinction for a night scene of figures under a lamp post.  
    1969  'A' level Art,  A grade.

    The Nineteen Seventies
    1969  St. Andrews University, Fife. Co-founded, edited, illustrated and contributed prose and verse to 3 editions of a Literary-Arts magazine called “Entry"
    1973  Lived in Fife until 1979 practising a variety of craft and art activities, including textiles and topographical line drawings. Employed as a Small-Finds Draughtsman by Perth High Street Archaeological Dig and also as an Artist drawing reconstruction views of the medieval city.  Exhibited paintings, abstract and figurative, in St. Andrews Festival and elsewhere. 
    1979  Moved to Somerset,  produced another series of local line drawings as prints and greetings cards.

    The Eighties
    1980  Devon, Dartington College,  H.E. qualification in “Art and Design in a Social Context,” with a special interest in murals and public art.
    1982  Continued painting practice
    1985  Creative Writing Apprenticeship Bursary from the Arvon Foundation, and forays into Teaching English as a Foreign Language. 

    The Nineties
    1991  Adult Education Tutor in Brixham and Totnes, and other A.E. Centres, Community College Departments, and the W.E.A. Mainly teaching Watercolours, but also Oils, Art History, Drawing-and-Painting, and ‘A’ level English.  5 years as Art Course Moderator for Open College Network Southwest. 

    The Twentyfirst Century
    2007/8  Art Workshops in First Floor Studio, Clay Door, Old Pottery Court, Chudleigh, and other private tutoring to groups in Yealmpton, Dartington, and South Brent.  Courses of weekly tuition for small groups of practised and professional artists, current group includes Ceramicists, Photographers and Designers. See "The Roger Dennis Studio Painters"  who exhibited at  Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge, in 2011.  
    Roger's studio can be visited by request and in most Teign Artists Open Studios trails, see  www.teignartists.co.uk for dates.

    Exhibition History

    2011  Roger Dennis Studio Painters at Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon
    2010  Open Studios, Teign Artists
    2010  Rill Estate, Buckfastleigh. Launch of Teign Artists Six Days of Art
    2009  Doddiscombsleigh Art Show
    2008  Dartmoor Artists Annual
    2008  Roger Dennis Studio Painters. Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon
    2007  "Devon Art Works" Open Studios. Clay Door Studio, Chudleigh, Devon
      Dartmoor Artists Annual. Ashburton, Devon
    2006  Nine Days of Art, Open Studios. Clay Door Studio, Chudleigh
    2005  Nine Days of Art, Open Studios. Clay Door Studio, Chudleigh
    2003  Ashburton Art Feast. Gallery 21, Ashburton, Devon
      Art Farm Project. Roccombe Farm, Devon
      Doddiscombsleigh 2nd Art Show. Doodiscombsleigh, Devon
    2002  Nine Days of Art, Open Studios. Home Exhibition, with Georgianna Townshend. Ashburton, Devon
      Doddiscombsleigh Art Show. Doddiscombsleigh, Devon
    2000  Art Tutors Show. The Mansion, Totnes, Devon
      Nine Days of Art, Open Studios. 3 Artists Show. Methodist Church Hall, Ashburton, Devon
    1999  23 East Street Gallery, Ashburton
    1997  Six Artists Show. Ariel Gallery, Totnes
    1996   Seymoor Gallery, Totnes, Devon
    1995  Dartmoor Artists Annual. Ashburton
    1994  North Devon Light. Plough Gallery, Torrington, Devon
    1993  North Devon Bridges. Plough Gallery, Torrington, Devon
    1992  Wykeham galleries, Stockbridge, Hants
    1991  Totnes Amnesty International Art Show. Totnes, Devon
      Eye Annual Art Show. Eye, Suffolk
    1986  Sketchbooks Show. Exeter Arts Centre, Exeter, Devon
    1985  One Thousand Miles From Anywhere, joint with Nicole Georgianna Townshend. Home exhibition, part of The 6th Ashburton Festival. Selections elsewhere locally including Exeter Arts Centre
    1981  solo: St Katherine's Gallery, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, Fife.
    1980  solo: Traverse Theatre Gallery, Edinburgh
    1979  solo: St Andrews Festival Fringe Gallery.
    1978  solo: St Andrews Festival Fringe. St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
     
      Roger has work in private collections in America; Luxemborg; Spain; and in the U.K.: Ashburton; Barnsley; Buckfastleigh; Cambridge; Edinburgh; Glasgow; London; Lincoln; Southampton; Totnes; and elsewhere.
     
     

     

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