Jamie Boyd (B.1948-) contribution to the contemporary Australian art is significant. He achieved national and international recognition and is represented in major collections around the world. Spanning over 6 generations, the Boyd dynasty is the most successful family in the arts in the world. While Arthur Boyd (1920-1999) and  David Boyd (1924- ) played a major role in the Antipodean group in the late 1950s, and are perhaps the best known of the family they remain the most important and best loved artists.

COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;
Art Bank, Sydney; 
The Tavistock Centre, London;
Bundanon Trust Collection;
University of South Australia;
University of Western Australia;
Council Adult Education, Melbourne; 
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston;
BHP collection Australia;
Boxer Collection, Australia;
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London

Jamie Boyd (b.1948) BIOGRAPHY

View the Boyd family tree

Jamie Boyd's work is represented in major national and international collections. Jamie Boyd was born in Melbourne in 1948, he moved with his family to London in 1959 and has been based there ever since with frequent return visits to Australia. Jamie Boyd studied at the Central School of Art and Design, London in the 1960’s. Tutored by his famous father Arthur Boyd, Jamie began his artistic career painting landscapes of Hampstead Heath and the English countryside. Jamie Boyd's work received critical acclaim from the time of his first solo exhibition at the age of sixteen - an exhibition staged at Kim Bonython's Adelaide gallery. From 1966 he continued to exhibit in Australia and internationally and a painting award allowed him to study at the Michael Karolyi Foundation in the Southern France. In 1978 Jamie and his family spent a year living by the Shoalhaven River where, like his father, the river and the rock faces became the focus of some exceptionally beautiful paintings with tranquil landscape. Jamie Boyd is acknowledged as a master colorist, his work is acquiescent, tender and soothing. Jamie Boyd is an accomplished draughtsman and his drawings demonstrate a real virtuosity whether in pencil or charcoal. As an artist Jamie Boyd is equally accomplished across a wide variety of mediums - pencil on paper, gouache and pastel or oil on canvas. His paintings have often a dream-like quality the vibrant images and shadowy figures regularly emerge on his canvases.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1966,68,70,82 Bonython Galleries, Adelaide
1967,70,72,80,82 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1969,72 Drian Galleries, London
1969,71,76 Von Bertouch Gallery, Newcastle
1971 Clytie Jessop Gallery, London
1973 Skinner Galleries, Perth
1976 Gallerie Kuppers, Neuss, Germany
1977 Gallerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Holland
1978 Fine Arts Gallery, Perth
1979 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney
1980, 87, 88 New South Wales House, London
1980,85 David Ellis Fine Art, Ballarat
1981 Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
1982 Holdsworth Gallery, Sydney
1984 Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
1985 Carriaggio Gallery, Palaia, Italy
1986 Bonython-Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide
1986, 90 Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1988, 90 Boundary Gallery, London
1988 Savill Gallery, Sydney
1988 Schubert Gallery, Surfers Paradise
1989 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
1990 Christchurch Mansion, Ipswitch, England
1992 Gillian Jason, London
1993 Chappel Steurton, London
1993, 96, 97 Aviva Campbell Gallery at the Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
1995 Eva Breuer, Sydney
1996 Stair Gallery, London
1996, 97 Galleria Aniela Fine Art, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
1999 Savill Galleries, Melbourne, and Sydney, NSW
2002 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2002,04 Greythorn Galleries, Melbourne

COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;
Art Bank, Sydney; 
The Tavistock Centre, London;
Bundanon Trust Collection;
University of South Australia;
University of Western Australia;
Council Adult Education, Melbourne; 
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston;
BHP Australia;
Boxer Collection, Australia;
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London

PUBLICATIONS
Australian Art, 1975-80, Kim Bonython
The Arts of the Boyds, P. Doberez & P Herbst
Creating of Self Portraits, T. Coats & M. Beazley
New Art Four, Neville Drury
An Antipodean Connection, G. Prampolini 7 MC, Hubert, Slatkine, Geneve
Modern Painters Autumn 1992

Sydney Morning Herald - The Boyd's: Family Biography