James Hart Dyke 'A Year with MI6'
15 April 2011
Exhibition and prints on sale.
James Hart Dyke is best described as ‘a modern but classical painter’ (The Wall Street Journal Europe, Collecting, December 6-8, 2002). He combines a classic genre of painting that is strongly influenced by the English Romantic tradition, while also engaging with contemporary ways of working. Using only the fundamental elements of oil paint on canvas he creates paintings that balance abstraction with reality. The work combines painterly qualities with that of his interest in graphics.
Hart Dyke studied at the Royal College of Art, Manchester University and The City and Guilds School of Art.
He painted a landscape 'Ampleforth Autumnal Morning' which is available to buy from the Abbey Shop, and online here: http://www.ampleforth.org.uk/acatalog/Prints.html
2009 was the centenary year of the British Secret Service (SIS). To mark the occasion they invited artist James Hart Dyke behind their closed doors and into the secret world of espionage. The resulting series of paintings and drawings now forms the object of a selling exhibition at Mount Street Galleries, London. The pictures represent an outsider’s unique interpretation of an existence that, for those who work in SIS, can often be dangerous and surreal.
The main exhibition is now finished however a small collection of paintings are still on show at
Mount Street Galleries, 94 Mount Street, Mayfair, London W1K 2SZ tel: 020 7493 1613
Buy prints and see the catalogue online at