Roger Dellar PS RI ROI RSMA

Statement

Roger Dellar's enjoyment of painting is the process rather than the end result. It is about finding the subject and letting it emerge. He enjoys the surface created, the brushwork and the differences between lean and fat paint. He wants the painting to read from a distance as reality, but close up to be a series of marks. With composition, he likes this to emerge by looking for the spatial qualities of one shape creating an imbalance, and then being resolved by another. He likes to work with a limited palette adding a few brights for emphasis.

Methodology

Roger works from life and in the studio, and uses one of the following: oil, pastel, watercolour or gouache. He uses a sketchbook for gaining information if he is out and wishing to travel light. A large proportion of his work is created by painting a series of small oils on location and developing them later into larger, more considered pieces. Then in the studio, when working for an exhibition, Roger will work on several pieces in order not to become too precious, and thereby more critical. In the studio he often uses sketches and photography to gain his first idea: not to copy, but to interpret.

Bio

1949 Born on 29 May in St. Albans, Hertfordshire

Self-taught artist

1996 Elected a Member of the Wapping Group of Artists

1996-98 Artist in Residence at Petworth House, NT

1997 Elected a Member of the Chelsea Art Society

1997 Artist in Residence at Petersfield Music Festival

2000 Elected a Member of Langham Sketching Club

2001 Elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

2002 Elected a Council Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

2003 Elected a Member of the Pastel Society

2005 Artist in Residence at the Guildford International Music Festival and Festival of the Sea, Portsmouth

2006 Elected an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2007 Artist in Residence at the Hollycombe Steam Fair and the Guildford International Music Festival

2008 Elected a Council Member of the Pastel Society

2008 Elected a full Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2009 Elected a Council member ROI

2011 Elected Vice President of the Pastel Society

Memberships

Wapping Group of Artists

Chelsea Art Society

2011 Elected Honorary President of Haslemere Art Society