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Published on: 6/18/2005
Last Visited: 11/29/2006
Jolyon Dupuy
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Jolyon Dupuy: Artist
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Jolyon Dupuy is not a draughtsman, he is not a painter, he is not a sculptor.
Jolyon Dupuy is an artist.
Visual art is not about reading, writing, listening or, indeed, seeing.
Visual art is an experience.
My first encounter with Jolyon Dupuy's work took place, this Summer, walking my pug dog on the beach in Kingsdown, a small village on the South-East coast near Deal where I live.
From a distance, I set eyes on this very beautiful 'thing'.
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I am deeply indebted to the artist Jolyon Dupuy: I now understand.
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Jolyon Dupuy (Driftwood Broker)
Driftwood broker, flotsam and jetsam pirate, trover of the Thames-side, you are the ones who are doing it , so says he , Dupuy, who is actually doing it, and doing it like a maniac possessed by finding and looking and making, and most of all by nothing at all, but sea and sky and the poetic of gradual change, the inevitable degradation of matter, and by fascination which arises phoenix like out of the ashes of destruction to bring new vital growth and regeneration.
He is on automatic, magnetizing trouve, the detritus of spent lifes and disguarded dreams into newborn constellations.Every summer at Kingsdown in Kent, overlooking the haunting Goodwins, mermaids, dragons, neon octopi appear as if by magic upon the pebbled beach to the delight of all comers who wonder at these childlike reversions made by the man who talks to wood, yes, and the wood talks back to him in an endless drifting dialogue, hundreds of years old, years of sunshine and waves, of nights and days, the human timescale lost into eons of rise and fall, fret and swell, the natural spheres unwound and unwinding still.
This art is not sophisticated but beautifully innocent, not naïve, nor intellectual, but purified by endless tides and salty brine absorbed into fissures and ancient peg holes, into knotty planks and ingrained beams which become metamorphosed in the large careful hands of Dupuy (who is actually a giant at 6 feet 6 inches) into ancient mariners and modern icons whimsical, humorous and psycho surreal.
These pieces are not stuck, but fixed, and very finely worked too, almost invisibly so.Thirty years of Shipbroking for a prosperous city firm, stevedore strength and captains bloodline combine to give Dupuy an eerie continuum aligned with the seven seas and an intimate knowledge of global shipping.
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