DAVID ATKINS
DAVID ATKINS A Glimpse of Blue 9 – 26 March 2021 This entire exhibition can be viewed online at www.thackeraygallery.com We are delighted to offer Virtual Private Tours via Facetime or WhatsApp, to provide a bespoke viewing experience. Please do feel free to contact us via email or phone 07989 393 373 to book a Virtual Private Tour and for all the information on this show, including framed images, prices & video’s of each artwork. We will be as flexible as possible and have many options available – so please do get in touch
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A Glimpse of Blue Standing on the shore and looking out at the sea and the sky has provided a subject that has fascinated me all my life. It offers a simple composition but one that contains a limitless variety of possibilities. The light and colour will change endlessly as it is affected by the weather, time of day and the season. Tides will come and go with waves that vary in height and strength. All is in perpetual movement. It is within those three constant bands of sea, sky and land that I can express my responses and reactions as a painter. In a wholehearted process of making marks, gestures, textures, erasures, of mixing colours and mediums that are swiftly applied to canvas, I am seeking to discover something that conveys my sensations and responses to this vast subject. Rivers provide me with another romantic subject, especially during the autumn months. Colours of gold and bronze are set alongside soft, grey tones. The river is noisy and fast moving, contrasting against the relative stillness of the trees with their gently falling leaves. The majority of my paintings have been made in front of the subject. Others, painted in the studio, have drawn on a range of different sources, such as sketchbooks, small oil studies, videos, poems and memories.Throughout all of my work there is a desire to find ways to fully express my concerns and my depth of feeling.
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Waves Breaking oil on board – 25 x 30cm
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A River in Autumn II oil on canvas – 100 x 80cm
Mountain River, Glencoe oil on canvas – 80 x 100cm
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Night Sea V oil on paper – 51 x 46cm
A Calm Sea oil on paper – 49 x 44cm
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Summer Storm oil on board – 61 x 91cm
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Ringstead Bay in Autumn oil on paper – 37 x 41cm
Winter Evening oil on board – 30 x 30cm
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A Hot Summers Day on Studland Beach oil on board – 61 x 81cm
The Beach at Brancaster, Norfolk oil on canvas – 80 x 100cm
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Spring Flowers II oil on board – 28 x 20cm
Summer Flowers I oil on board – 30 x 25cm
Spring Flowers III oil on board – 30 x 25cm
Spring Flowers V oil on board – 30 x 25cm
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A River in Autumn I oil on canvas – 80 x 100cm
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Towards Night oil on paper – 37 x 41cm
The Sea and Sky in Winter oil on paper – 50 x 55cm
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A River in Autumn III oil on canvas – 80 x 120cm
Late Evening Sea in Winter oil on board – 30 x 30cm
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Winter Evening by the Sea oil on board – 30 x 30cm
A Glimpse of Blue on a Summers Day oil on canvas – 90 x 130cm
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Incoming Tide, Brancaster, Norfolk oil on canvas – 80 x 110cm
Morning Light oil on paper – 50 x 55cm
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Fair Weather, Stiffkey Marshes oil on canvas – 80 x 100cm
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The Sea and Sky in Autumn Ringstead Beach oil on board – 61 x 81cm
A Hot Summers Day on Studland Beach oil on board – 61 x 81cm
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Passing Storm, Summers Day oil on board – 61 x 91cm
Towards the Night. The North Sea oil on board – 66 x 81cm
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Evening Sea oil on board – 51 x 51cm
Late Evening on the Beach oil on board – 61 x 81cm
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BIOGRAPHY 1964 1982-1983 1983-1986
Born, Greenwich, London. England St Martins School of Art, London. Foundation Course Winchester School of Art (BA Fine Art Honors Degree, First Class: Painting)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2021 ‘A Glimpse of Blue’, Thackeray Gallery, London 2019 ‘In Ireland & Italy’ Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire. ‘The Ashdown & Rye Bay’, Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells 2018 ‘Light of Day’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; ‘New Paintings’, McAllister Thomas Gallery; ‘North Norfolk’, Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk 2017 ‘Ashdown & Beyond’, Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, ‘Rivers, Rocks & Mountains’, McAllister Thomas Gallery 2016 ‘Land, Sea & Sky’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk; McAllister Thomas Gallery, Surrey 2015 ‘A Slight Chance of Rain’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; ‘Shared Journey’s’, McAllister Thomas Gallery, Surrey 2014 ‘Weather & Light. On a Journey with Turner’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; McAllister Thomas Gallery, Surrey; Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk 2013 ‘London Life’, Albemarle Gallery, London; ‘Under English Skies’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; ‘Devon & Cornwall’, McAllister Thomas Gallery 2012 McAllister Thomas Gallery, Surrey; Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells; Red Rag Gallery, Bath 2011 ‘A Journey in Two Cities’, Campden Gallery; McAllister Thomas Gallery, Surrey Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk 2010 ‘Venice’, Albemarle Gallery, London; Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells 2009 ‘Land & City Light’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk; Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford 2008 Albemarle Gallery, London 2007 Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk 2006 Albemarle Gallery, London 2005 Stables Gallery, Northern Ireland; Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk 2004 Albemarle Gallery, London 34
SOLO EXHIBITIONS CONT.: 2003 Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells; Fairfax Gallery, Norfolk 2002 Albemarle Gallery, London 2001 The White Gallery, Brighton 1991 Tall House Gallery, London GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2019 ‘Drawing on Dorset’, Durlston Gallery, Dorset; ‘Spring’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire. 2018 Marine Society Annual Exhibition; Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition; Quantum Contemporary Art 2015 ‘Anniversary Exhibition’, Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells; ‘Paintings of Oxford’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire. 2013 ‘The Art of Making’, Bournemouth University 2012 ‘AQUEOUS’, Albemarle Gallery, London; Courcoux and Courcoux, Hampshire ‘94-’11 ‘Site Unseen’, Olympic Delivery Authority, London; McAllister Thomas Gallery, Surrey; Red Rag Gallery, Bath; Albany Gallery, Cardiff; Courcoux and Courcoux,, Hampshire; Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells; Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford; Beaux Arts, Bath; Campden Gallery, Gloucester; Stables Gallery, Ireland; Laing Landscape Exhibition, London; ‘Landmark. A Survey of British Landscape Painting’, Bournemouth University; Offer Waterman Fine Art London AWARDS: 2018 Baltic Exchange Award. Marine Society Annual Exhibition. 2012 Aesthetica Magazine Competition. Runner Up 2011 Aesthetica Magazine Competition. Highly commended 2003 The Horan Prize for Painting. Awarded at the NEAC Exhibition. London 2001 The Laing Landscape Award 2000 The Facade International Prize for Painting at The Discerning Eye; The Chichester Open (Prize Winner) 1999 Bideford Open. Prize Winner. 1993 Atlantis Young Artist Award. 1st Prize. 1986 The Bateson Mason Award for Drawing. 35
MAJOR COLLECTIONS: 2006 Hampshire County Council Collection; Russell Coates Museum, Bournemouth 1992 Guildhall, Kingston, London. 1986 Creasy Collection, Salisbury COMMISSIONS: 1986 Four murals for the GLC at Eltham Park Swimming Pool. PUBLICATIONS: 2019 ‘Drawing on Dorset’, Publication to accompany the touring exhibition ‘In Ireland & Italy’. Exhibition catalogue Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire 2017 ‘Drawing & Painting the Landscape.’ Phil Tyler published by Crowwood Press 2016 ‘Land, Sea & Sky’ exhibition catalogue Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire 2015 ‘A Slight Chance of Rain’, Exhibition catalogue Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire; ‘Shared Journey’s’, McAllister Thomas Gallery, Surrey 2014 ‘Weather & Light. On a Journey with Turner’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire 2012 ‘Under English Skies’, Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire 2011 ‘A Journey in Two Cities’, Campden Gallery; Aesthetica Creative Works, catalogue; Public Collections catalogue, South Dorset County Council 2009 ‘Land & City Light’, exhibition catalogue, Campden Gallery 2007 Public Collections catalogue, Hampshire County Council 2002/13 Exhibition catalogues, Albemarle Gallery, Forward by Brian Sewell 2002 Laing PLC calendar 1998 1998 BBC film for Beatrice Royal Art Gallery; Artists & Illustrators Magazine. Oct issue.
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Garden Rose – oil on board – 30 x 25cm
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