J A C Bezer’s interest in birds started when he was a child and would spend time at the bird gardens that his aunt and uncle owned. His parents always kept a well-stocked bird table or two in the garden and the birds gathering around them outside the window were a constant presence. J A C’s earliest drawings were all birds from the garden or his father’s RSPB books.
A few years ago he read the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, a book which has the Goldfinch by Fabritius at its heart. This book stuck with him more than anything he had read before and the goldfinch became a very powerful symbol to him in his paintings. Around the same time he visited the Picasso Museum in Barcelona and was struck by Picasso’s pigeons. His own bird paintings now sit in the Beaskoa Gallery as part of the Paam Project directly opposite the Picasso Museum.
In his paintings he likes to marry the abstract with the figurative nature of the birds. He paints them quite thinly, often barely covering the background in places in an attempt to highlight their fragility.
