James Dodds (born 1957) is an East Anglian artist whose practice centers on painting, linocut and relief carving.
Born in Brightlingsea, Essex, he now lives and works in Wivenhoe producing prints and books as the Jardine Press.
[9][10] A timelapse film of Dodds making a large painting for this show called Timepeace is on his website.
His style evokes the spirit of rural and maritime East Anglia with scenes of daily life and folklore.
[15] A short film, "Shaped by the Sea", about Dodds, by Emily Harris for Classic Yacht TV was released in May 2014.
[16] Played Anthony's father in Joanna Hogg's Sundance Grand Jury winning Film The Souvenir & The Souvenir II "Looking at the paintings of James Dodds for the first time one is struck by the literalness of the work, the sheer specificity of plank on frame built outward by the practiced hand of a man whose obsession with the form and structure of boats had taken him out of school at fifteen and into a shipyard apprenticeship.
Here mankind and its works are laid before us – frail, clever, tender, damaged, beautiful and trying to stay safely alive.