Jamie BOYD

Jamie Boyd is a painter with a great inheritance. Son of Arthur Boyd, he has a family history that extends back through three generations of painters and sculptors. Jamie is an enthusiastic painter of the landscape and the figure, constantly challenging and redefining his knowledge of art through experimentation and play.

Jamie's work is noticeably divided by his homes in London and in the Shoalhaven area of NSW, but each seems to complement the other. He regularly visits the former Boyd property at Shoalhaven, to be reunited with the surrounding landscape and its incredible,intangible beauty and strength.

His approach to the landscape is quite different from his father's. Where Arthur immortalised this landscape with a new mid-twentieth century Australian mythology, Jamie takes another route. The underlying beat of his work is the strong, vertical motif of dense bush trees combined with the strong horizontal of the Shoalhaven river itself. Jamie's sensitivity to colour, light, form and arrangement make his work individual in its composition and universal in its appeal.

Born in Melbourne, Jamie moved to London with his family at a young age. He began his painting career full-time in 1965 at the age of seventeen, with his first Australian exhibition at Bonython Galleries in Adelaide in 1966. Since then he has exhibited regularly in Australia, England, Italy, Germany and Holland. Jamie is represented in numerous private and public collections including Artbank, Sydney; Mertz Collection, USA; Queen Victoria Musem and Art Gallery, Launceston; BHP Australia; Boxer Collection, Australia; the University of South Australia and the University of Western Australia.
(From the Greenhill Gallery Catalogue,Adelaide)
We first showed Jamie's work in Highgate after we acquired the Highgate Gallery in 1988 - now Highgate Fine Art is pleased to take up the baton with him again, as he lives in the village and in between trips to Australia, he has to look after his father's estate in Suffolk. We hope to be able to find a good home for his great semi-abstract painting /collage of Shoalhaven River His last show Highgate Fine Art was March 1998.
Noel Oddy and Laurie MacLaren 2007