Kit Glaisyer
“My current work is a celebration of the breathtaking landscapes of the West Country, and my artistic journey is rooted in my deep appreciation for the enduring, timeless qualities and endless possibilities available with the medium of oil painting.”
Kit has run his Bridport Contemporary Gallery in Bridport, West Dorset for 5 years. The Gallery is open every Saturday from 10am to 4pm and at other times by appointment.
Bridport Contemporary, 11 Downes Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3JR
Kit was Highly Commended by London-based Curator Fru Tholstrup in the Marshwood Arts Awards in 2024. He was previously Highly Commended in the Marshwood Arts Awards in 2015 by Artist John Hubbard (1931-2017).
Kit exhibited in the Dorset Magazine Landscape Painter of the Year 2017 as well as exhibiting in the Holburne Painting Prize in 2015. He then ran the Garden Gallery in Bath, Somerset from 2017 to 2018. He had previously run the Artoose Gallery in Belsize Park, North London from 2002 to 2004. He exhibited with the Suzanne Ruggles Gallery on the Kings Road, Chelsea, London from 1997 to 2001. He went on to exhibit at the Pierrepoint Gallery in Bridport and the William Pelly Gallery in Lyme Regis.
You can watch a tour of Kit’s ‘West Dorset Landscapes’ exhibition at the Jubilee Gallery in Poundbury in November 2023, to which he is producing a follow-up exhibition in October 2024.
