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James Dodds Biography
James Dodds is an artist able to paint shipping from the inside out. Like a nautical-anatomist, he picks apart the structure of each vessel, revealing their great timber skeletons. Producing abstracted images of breadth and power, his paintings convey the raw strength of vessels built to withstand the elements and, having trained as a shipwright, rebuilding Thames barges on Britain’s east coast before studying at the Royal College of Art and pursuing a career in painting, he is intimately acquainted with his subject. Dodds has recently returned from a period spent painting in the great shipyards of Maine and the north-eastern United States studying the connections between the English and the American east coasts.
James Dodds is represented exclusively by Messum’s.
2010 Dowling Walsh, Rockland, Maine USA
Buckenham Galleries, Southwold
2009 Messum's Fine Art, Cork Street
Bircham Gallery, Holt
Messum's Fine Art, Cork Street
2008 Salthouse 08, Norfolk
Haylett's Gallery, Maldon
2007 Messum's Fine Art, Cork Street
Essex University Gallery
2006 Messum's Fine Art, Cork Street
2005 Hartlepool Art Gallery
Time & Tide, Great Yarmouth
2004 Messum's Fine Art, Cork Street
2003 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
National Maritime Museum of Cornwall
2002 Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Durham
Quay Art Centre, Isle of Wight
Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset
Herne Bay Museum & Art Gallery, Kent
Whitstable Museum & Art Gallery, Kent
2001 firstsite @ The Minories, Colchester
James Dodds, Rudyard Kipling’s The Shipwright’s Trade, Wivenhoe: Jardin Press Ltd, 1990
Martin Newell and James Dodds, Wild Man of Wivenhoe, Wivenhoe: Jardine Press Ltd, 1997
Martin Newell and James Dodds, Black Shuck, Wivenhoe: Jardine Press Ltd, 1999
Allan Drummond and James Dodds, Wild Man of Orford, Wivenhoe: Jardine Press Ltd, 2002
Martin Newell and James Dodds, The Song of the Waterlily, Wivenhoe: Jardine Press Ltd, 2003
Katrina Porteous and James Dodds, Longshore Drift, Wivenhoe: Jardine Press Ltd, 2005
Katrina Porteous, Nigel Shuttleworth and James Dodds, The Blue Lonnen, Wivenhoe: Jardine Press Ltd, 2007
John Collins and James Dodds, River Colne Shipbuilders: A Portrait of Shipbuilding 1786-1988, Wivenhoe: Jardine Press Ltd, 2009
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James Dodds 2013
Studio Publications 2013
East Coast Influences
Studio Publications 2012
James Dodds Tide Lines
Studio Publications & Jardine Press 2011
James Dodds Tide Lines
Studio Publications & Jardine Press 2011
James Dodds 2011
Studio Publications 2011
East Coast Influences, 2010
Studio Publications 2010
East Coast Influences
Studio Publications 2009
Mackrill and Marine, 2009
Studio Publications 2009
River Colne Shipbuilders: A Portrait of Shipbuilding 1786-1988
Jardine Press 2009
River Colne Shipbuilders: A Portrait of Shipbuilding 1786-1988
Jardine Press 2009
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Fore and Aft
Studio Publications 2007
The Blue Lonnen
Jardine Press Ltd 2007
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East Coast Influences, 2007
Studio Publications 2007
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Recent Work, 2006
Studio Publications 2006
James Dodds and the Jardine Press
Jardine Press 2006
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Making Waves: Artists in Southwold
Published by Black Dog Books 2005
Longshore Drift
Jardine Press Ltd 2005
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Shipshape
Studio Publications 2004
The Song of the Waterlily
Jardine Press Ltd 2003
Wild Man of Orford
Jardine Press Ltd 2002
ABC of Boat Bits
Jardine Press Ltd 2000
Black Shuck
Jardine Press Ltd 1999
Alphabet of Boats
Jardine Press Ltd 1998
Wild Man of Wivenhoe
Jardine Press Ltd 1997
Rudyard Kipling’s The Shipwright’s Trade
Jardine Press Ltd 1990
James Dodds elsewhere on the web