Ian Cryer   R.O.I. Born Filton, Bristol, England 1959

Education

Primary schools, Shellard Road, Filton 1964-65, Mitchell Park, Adelaide 1966-67, Warradale, Adelaide 1968, Downend County School 1968, Elm Park school Winterbourne 1969-70. Ridings High School, Winterbourne 1970-75.

Dissatisfied with the Art training available he elected to go it alone, and although largely self taught attended Portrait classes with Leonard Boden RP, Life classes at Bristol Polytechnic and courses at the Mary Ward centre and in South Sweden.

A committed artist all his life, Ian has held many one man and mixed exhibitions and is a frequent exhibitor with the professional societies including the Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, New English Art Club.

Commissions

Ian carries out many varied commissions for Corporate and private clients from Portraits and Domestic Interiors to Landscapes, Rural, Urban and Industrial. His client list currently includes Price Waterhouse, Wadworths Brewery, Bass Museum of Brewing, Lord Bath, Longleat House, Hestercombe Gardens, Bristol Rovers FC , Railtrack, English Welsh and Scottish Railways, Royal Mail and The House of Lords (Permanent Collection).

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

The Art Center, Bristol 1976
The Patricia Wells Gallery, Thornbury 1983
The Linfield Gallery, Bradford on Avon 1984
‘Local Scenes, A celebration of the British Public House.’ - The Bass Museum, Burton upon trent 1995
‘A year in West Somerset’ - The Lynda Cotton Gallery, Watchet 2001      view catalogue
‘EWS Night and Day’ - The National Railway Museum, York 2002
Open Studio Exhibitions held 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993.

Group shows:

Bath Contemporary Art Fair (Linfield Galleries)
‘A Critics Choice’ Cooling Gallery 1991 (Selected by Brian Sewell)
Hunting Group finalist
Discerning Eye Exhibition
International Art Biennially of Malta 1996
RBA show in Kentucky USA 1992
200 years of railway art at the NRM 2004