About:

David Poyser is a Contemporary English artist. His first exhibition was at the Tate Gallery, London, as 1st Prize Winner in Painting in a national junior competition in 1965. He studied at the RCA, who described his artwork in an official written reference as "striking and original" and awarded him a show of his large landscape paintings made on location in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the English New Forest, and the sea and shore in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.

This site shows examples of his artworks, from a wider collection created through series and periods over the decades that includes abstract and figurative paintings, drawings, designs, sketchbooks, some sculpture, research works, photographic artworks, short movies, a novel and collection of poems (unpublished), and working process notes, observations and technical plans.

Born: 1952 Nottinghamshire, England UK

Qualifications: MPhil RCA, MFA Newcastle University, DipAD Loughborough, PGCE London University including teaching practice after interview at the Slade School of Fine Art London.

Practice: Painting, Drawing, Collage, Photo Art +
Periods: Contemporary Art
Artworks include:

Paintings - Temple Painting, American Storm, Chernobyl, The Island, Miracle, Figure Running On A Road In Vietnam, Jolt +
Photographic art series - American Trucks, Cowboys, Moons, Movies, Temples,  Abstracts, Self Portraits +
Short movies - Lullaby, Jesse James, Downtown, Moonstruck, Fugitive, Relic, American Truck 1, Swirl +

Exhibitions: 1st Prize Winner in Painting UK national junior competition, at Tate Gallery London, which toured to the Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester and Glasgow Museum & Art Gallery / Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester / RCA, London, six shows collectively at Henry Moore Gallery, Gulbenkian Gallery & solo show at David Hockney Gallery / Bloomsbury Gallery London / Dryden Street Gallery London / Mall Galleries London three shows, respectively: Discerning Eye, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, National Open Printmaking Exhibition / Hatton Gallery Newcastle three shows / Belowstairs Gallery Newcastle / 8th International Printmaking Exhibition Urawa City Japan / eleven installations of large landscape paintings made and exhibited on location Canadian Rocky Mountains, English New Forest, Cornwall, Devon and Dorset sea, shore and cliffs

Artist statement:

"My experience as an artist covers 1960s-present. This site shows examples of my work, from a wider collection. Full images and information are recorded in offline digital files. Ideas for my artwork come from a natural feel for materials, innovation, experimentation, research and development, observation - such as the colour spectrum and light around the moon and sun - inspiration from my native Nottinghamshire landscape of open meadows and Sherwood Forest, painting in a North Yorkshire village, developing ideas for paintings from an epic 10,000 mile US road trip through the western states from the California Pacific coast to New Mexico and Wyoming to Arizona and so much inbetween, crossing the Alberta prairies to paint very large canvases in the Rocky Mountains, painting more large canvases on location in the English New Forest and the south coast sea and shore in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, sensing the light and space from road trips through France including Paris and from the north coast to the French Riviera on the Mediterranean, and from living near seas and rivers."
 

David Poyser artist

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