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Featured Artist / David Webb / Painting & Drawing
www.davidwebbpaintings.co.ukdjwebb1973@yahoo.co.uk
Many of us are inspired by travel and the evocative variety of distant locations.
David Webb, whose artistic residences range far and wide – Cyprus College of Art, Florence Trust London, Triangle Workshop New York - puts ‘response to location’ at the core of his practice. Most recently he was awarded a painting fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.
As he says himself, “I take written notes and draw directly from the subject. I then create paintings from these in my studio. I look for distinctive shapes and objects which can evolve in the course of the painting. I aim for them to seem familiar rather than recognisable. Although usually un-peopled, the landscapes, buildings and objects often intimate the memory of a relationship”.
David has made bodies of work based on trips to Armenia, Mexico and Canada. His residency in Cyprus represents his most important creative connection with the landscape and he will be working in Honduras this winter.
True to his ‘wanderlust’ he has exhibited widely across Europe and the US, has based work on cityscapes from London to New York and is currently ‘home-based’, contributing to an exhibition relating to the travels and travails of the legendary sailing ship ‘The Bounty’, showing at APT Gallery, Deptford, in October.
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john.gaffen@btinternet.com
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toriarance@aol.com
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