ABOUT​​

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DAVID POYSER - b.1952 - English Artist, United Kingdom, 1960s-2020s - DipAD Lboro, PGCE IOE Lond, MFA Newc, MPhil RCA

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David Poyser is an English artist who first studied at art college from 1969. He received an MPhil from the Royal College of Art, an MFA from Newcastle University, a DipAD from Loughborough College of Art & Design, and a PGCE from the Institute of Education London University. 

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​"The work on this site shows examples of my later paintings and other artwork, from a.wider collection. A record is held in offline files.

​I tend to work in series and periods. I have a feeling for the epic through the sublime and monumental, which is appropriate for much of my work overall though not all. I have worked through seven decades from the 1960s onwards and covered a lot of ground with many ideas explored and developed to varying extents." ​​​​

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Art Education - UK: MPhil RCA materials research and practice, development of imagery and methods in textile painting and sculpture, Royal College of Art London 1998-2001 / PEP Post Experience Programme for mid-career artists Royal College of Art London 1997-1998 / MFA painting Newcastle University Fine Art Department 1978-80, dissertation Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece / DipAD fine art Loughborough College of Art & Design 1971-74, thesis American Abstract Expressionism / Pre-DipAD foundation course art & design Mansfield College of Art 1969-71 / PGCE art & design London University Institute of Education 1987-88 including teaching practice experience after interview at the Slade School of Fine Art London 1988.

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Practice: Painting & Drawing, + Collage, Photo Art, Short Art Movies, some Sculpture

Art periods: Modern Art, Contemporary Art, 20th / 21st Century, Avant-garde experimental art

Artworks include:

Paintings - Temple Painting, American Storm, Chernobyl, The Island, Miracle, Figure Running On A Road In Vietnam, Jolt , landscapes made in Canada and the UK, USA road paintings +
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 +

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Exhibitions: 1st Prize Winner 1965 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 / Royal College of Art galleries, 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.

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Art-based locations / travel: 
- 10,000 mile American road trip - 2004 - San Francisco, Pacific Coast Route 101, Los Angeles / Hollywood / Santa Monica, Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Roswell, Dodge City, Meteor Crator, Monument Valley, Thunder Mountain, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado / panning for gold in the Colorado River, Wyoming, plus highways, motels, cowboy towns, diners, series of 'American Abstracts' paintings & drawings / 'Roads' paintings & drawings / 'Abstract Figures' paintings & drawings / photographs & photo artworks
- Canada - 1994 - series of large scale landscape paintings on canvas in the Rocky Mountains, made and exhibited on location
- Lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for six months 2004  - some ten years after Rocky Mountain paintings
- France, three road trips - 1982, 1989, 2009 - overall, Paris, Avignon, Provence, & the Mediterranean coast: St Raphael, St Tropez, Marseilles, Sette
- Sherwood Forest region - where born and raised 1952-71 - source & inspiration of life's work as an artist  
- Yorkshire village of Sutton-in-Craven 1976-77 where I lived and painted a series of landscape paintings, drawings and a self portrait, which I called my 'Visionary Paintings' - or alternately 'Pastoral Paintings.' 
- New Forest, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall - 1994-98 - series of large scale canvas landscape paintings, made and exhibited on location
- Titchfield village Hampshire - lived in 1991-2004 - several successful series of paintings
 

​Developments: Paintings, drawings from American road trip - photo artworks owing much to inter-disciplinary research methodologies from my research at the Royal College of Art. 

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