Gloria Dean
Profile
Gloria’s career as an artist has spanned sculpture, book illustration, stage sets and the design and
restoration of lacquered furniture and chinoiserie, including work for The Fitzwilliam Museum, The
Ashmolean Museum and also work on the Wallace Collection.
The Iberian horse has featured strongly in her work. Whilst travelling to Portugal to study Lusitano’s in their home environment she pursued her own studies in Haute Ecole under the
tutelage of Lord Henry Loch. Since then she has gone on to produce bold and powerful studies of bulls,
Inspired greatly by the fighting bulls of Portugal and the mass and majesty of both English and
Portuguese breeds. In these works is demonstrated her mastery of the art of draughtsmanship which is
seen throughout her work, from the dramatic charcoal studies of ballet dancers to the relaxed sketches
of passers-by.
Now spending most of her time living in Portugal, Gloria is drawing inspiration, from the people,
traditions and the country itself.
“ I have painted for as long as I can remember, from my earliest memories drawing was the activity
that I enjoyed most and as a child I would wander for miles, sketchbook in hand, drawing flowers,
trees, people and animals. I soon found a desire for movement and drama in my work and now
Whatever the subject, whether it be dancers, musicians or the prancing white horses of the Iberian
Peninsular, these are the qualities that I hope to attain.
Life is about movement, attitude, love, passion, drama, music; so it is not my intention to paint
portraits in the conventional sense but to capture these qualities as I perceive them in the subject.
Her work has been exhibited in the following galleries;
Doric Arts Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
Century Galleries, Henley –on- Thames
Mistral Gallery, Dover Street, London
Equus Gallery, Newmarket
The Deane Gallery, Co Cork
The Condon Gallery, Theatre Royal, Norwich
Chimney Mill Gallery, Bury St Edmunds
The Mall Galleries , London ( with The Pastel Society and The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours)
The King of Hearts Centre for the Arts, Norwich
Portugal; Gois Arte, 2006 2007
Live Arte, 2006 2007
Art
Writing
Are we only as good as our last piece of work?
“Does anything we’ve done before matter?” Philip questioned “After all, we are only as good as our last piece of work ”. So in my rush to destroy this proof that I am no good;
My masters, my teachers
Every day I would draw, apply, carve and gild tiny people practising their art of Tai Chi. I portrayed their beautiful flowing movements and purposeful stances
