A miscellaneous selection of mostly recent works. Acrylic and oil paintings, charcoal and Contè drawings, some watercolours in a contemporary style.
A regular stream of daily work on Instagram. @ddmeagain
David Davies. A visual artist and writer based in Norfolk UK, and L’Indre, Central France. A member of the long established London artist society Free Painters and Sculptors.
The visual work stretches from figurative to abstract, but falls mostly in between. Often imagined land and seascapes that rely heavily on the so called ‘happy accident’, and the unpredictable effects of paint colliding with paint, discovering the unimagined colours that I would never have thought to combine.
Whether figurative or abstract, I am constantly seeking out arrangements that surprise me, in the hope that it will have the same effect on others. That surprise is everything to me…the small moment when something I have created would appear to have been made by another’s hand. The same could be said for my writing of poetry and short fiction.
That moment may be as brief as a fraction of a second, but speaks volumes to me in as much as it informs me as to whether it has any aesthetic value. That value of course is subjective…’the eye of the beholder’…but the moment can be illuminating.
Email. david.davies@ymail.com
Dark Deletions (diptych mounted on A3 paper). Charcoal on torn paper collaged surface.Ancient Pathways and Hidden WaterwaysHidden DepthsBeneath the JettyDream of the Oyster Farm 3VolcanicLa Maison DoréePill BoxPrairie SculptureA Small Evening LandslideFast Car (collage)Road Across the Scree Slopes 3Round TowerLow TideLakeside Community
Internal Landscapes (series)
From the Ashes 1Glimpse of Tartarus
Town in Fog 1
Shoot Off #4
Elysium Orchard (Elysium series)
Sunset over the scrub (digital drawing over charcoal and walnut ink sketch)Flesh and Payne’s 1. ‘T’Feint Deletion
Desert Blooms (series)
Stubble Fire
Firefly cave 1Out of the Ashes 3Charred Wood Sculpture (Blue & Maroon)Bridge Near the Copse (collage)The Crimson Islands
waterfall
Many Moons 1
Many Moons 2
Many Moons 3
Many Moons 4
Pathways to the Copses #1. (Ink/charcoal on collaged surface)A Meeting of Minds
Celtic Monument (Nocturnal Landscape series)
Landing (the Styx) series
Burnt Forest #1. (1/10)
Wooden Vessel
Two Walks ( blind charcoal diptych)
Dangerous Cargo (series)
Cartographer with Copse
The Forgotten Tripod
German Tower (series)
Night Drivers Across the LakeItalian Heroes 1.
Northerly Migration
Channel Swimmer. (Charcoal/ colour pencil)
untitled
Bay Evening
Geological Feature (series)
Surveillance: Two Nuns. (Charcoal drawing)
Dance Diptych (Caged series)
Lighthouse at Elysium. (Underworld series)
From the Ashes 1
Denizens of the Asphodel. (Underworld series)
Scree SlideDream of the Oyster Farm 2Oradour3. (Collage)Dream of the Oyster Farm 1Fireflies in TartarusNavigating the CorrugationsNovemberThrough SiennaIcebergs 1Rise Beyond the Forest (Autumn)Hidden DepthsTowards the Mossy Headland‘On our first approach, the island looked promisingly verdant…’
Window on the Outback
Burning StubbleJungle MirrorLes Deux Voyeurs
’Sea Squall’. (collage)
Blood LineThe Cautious Mountain Hiker‘On our first approach, the island looked promisingly verdant…’Fusain 1
’Fusain 2’
Three Views of the Trig PointIslandSnail’s Pace. 1Subterranean Hotspots
two chairs (blind drawings)
Postcard from a muted heavenLie of the Land 3
blind chair drawings multiple
The Fall 1 (dip.)The Fall 2.(dip.)Entanglement ( mini dip)Fusain 1Blue Mirage 1Blue Mirage 2‘…the glade seemed to hold its own special light…’Firefly TheatreNight VipersFast Cars in the Night (diptych)Departed Audience ( chair multiple) blind drawingsOradour 4 (acrylic collage on distressed paper)P.177. Dresden 1930s. (Postcard portrait). (1/10)Refugees (Mother and Child) Germany, WW2. (1/10)Window on the Blue LagoonShore of the Crimson IslandBlue SentinelSquall (collage)The Cartographer with Copse 2 ( oil- the Cartographer series)The Cartographer with Copse 1. (Oil-the Cartographer series)White-Out 1. (oil- the Cartographer series)White-Out 2. (oil- the Cartographer series)White-Out 3. (oil- the Cartographer series)The Lost Theodolite. (oil-the Cartographer series)Dark Landscape (walnut ink)High Point of the Crimson IslandViking Boat Pyre (1 of triptych) – the Send OffViking Boat Pyre (2 of triptych – the SinkingViking Boat Pyre (3 of triptych) – the SubmergenceViking Boat Pyre ( the complete triptych)High Point of the Crimson IslandThe palmy fringeWreck- the first sightingIce Flow and AuroraClaude’s Garden
Promenade
Mountain Road — duskMirrored Sky 1Mirrored Sky 2Wildfires in the Canyon. (diptych)Campers on the Plateau
Pile of Chairs (blind charcoal drawing)
Two Chairs ( blind charcoal drawing)
Evening Camp
THE CHAIR DRAWINGS
( A series of drawings/paintings in charcoal, Contè crayon and ink drawn blind as a means of detaching myself from ‘correct drawing’ in a search for the surprise that comes in the transition from figurative to mark making abstraction.
Chairs Have Their Ghosts #5Chairs Have Their Ghosts #1Chairs Have Their Ghosts #4Chairs Have Their Ghosts #8Chairs Have Their Ghosts #7Chairs Have Their Ghosts #6Chairs Have Their Ghosts ( diptych)Chairs Have Their Ghosts (series) – A Chairness of Chairs.Chairs Have Their Ghosts (series) diptych (carbon paper and Conté)
A Facebook Exchange on the chair drawings.
Chairs Have Their Ghosts (series) – A Chairness of Chairs.Ghosts of a Departed AudienceInterior with Chair and Oriental RugPale Chair ( diptych)Evening ReadCove‘…but some of us are looking at the stars…’ Orion from the birch copse ( acrylic / ink sketch on Book Hive wrapping paper)Haystack Memory (Bosnia 1970s)