Overview

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Full name:

David Ronald Poyser - born 1952 England UK

MPhil RCA, MFA, DipAD, PGCE

      

Artist statement:

"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 and study, movies, literature, art history, such as: the fictional painter Claude Lantier in Emile Zola's novel L'Oeuvre - American abstraction, JMW Turner, John Constable, Samuel Palmer, Ancient Civilisations including architecture and wall paintings - 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 American road trip through nine 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 - 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."​

Art Education - UK: MPhil materials research and practice 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 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.

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

David Poyser artist

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