Garry Raymond-Pereira MA

“Garry Raymond Pereira’s seascapes are incredibly lifelike in their execution and are being avidly sought in this country and the U.S. He has been invited to paint in America by a leading gallery, who subsequently exhibited his work to great success. “It is Garry’s analytical confidence that makes him an open and shut case as an artist. It’s his scrutiny that’s crucial, that exact and intelligent grasp and judgement of the ends and means of paint, its vast suggestiveness. That, and a longing for conclusion and grace, is what these paintings are made of. They are arguably the most pictorially forceful and powerful stuff that you’ve seen in a long time. What is remarkable if the lie of the paint, its plenitude and surface: measured, objective and classically clean. Every watery, cloudy millimetre of these wide, flat planes - virtual monotones, like large blue - black bruises at an eye catching distance, is intended to swell and re-form. Which means these silent North Norfolk seas and skies are more than ever worth seeing as a bigger, more acute Romantic post-nineties sense of public space, it turns our private lives inside out, black and blue.”

Review by Mike Wiley.