About

I have spent many years honing my skills from sitting on my Grandad’s knee drawing cartoons at 6 to wherever I am today. I was once told by a mentor many years ago and reminded by an ex-student more recently that “Technique is no substitute for content”. Yet, I often fall back on technique, it has something to do with comfort, the knowledge that I have the technical skill to make realistic images that can be recognised. My heart and emotions live in a different place where the resonance and depth of colour, the deep tonal shadows and layers of surfaces condemn me to make work that I consider has some sort of substance and is important enough to be shared and seen.

My work is varied in process and content, but I have a desire to make “beautiful things” and now retired from education I am lucky enough to have the time to do this or at least try.

Embedded into all the work is Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio, the composition, proportion and strategic placing of objects or areas of colour, tone and surfaces that create balance and beauty.

The notion is that within the work there is a narrative of sorts, whether the object portrayed, is a pair of cox apples those variations my grandfather grew, a feather collected at a local beach, or dust collected from the wall of Siena, Tuscany. The story could be within the piece itself each layer revealing its history, and the time elapsed making it.

Please approach my work with an open mind and heart and don’t hesitate to contact me.

Dave Wilson