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David McDowell. Art and colours from the U.K.


  • Making A Scene: Director’s Cut
    Making A Scene 1 APRIL – 15 MAY 2010 David McDowell’s latest solo exhibition explores the qualities cinematic imagery can bring to a painting. The concept plays on the notion of taking a private moment and making it public whilst challenging the idea of spectatorship.  McDowell’s showcase of faux film stills looks at the makings of a scene; [...]

  • The Siren Series
    Below is my latest series of work entitled ‘The Siren Series’. This series will go on view later this year.

  • Relive Realism
    With the art market having exhausted all possibilities of the ‘shock factor’, has society reversed the canon? It comes as no surprise that the contemporary art market has seen an immense shift towards figurative realist painting in the past decade. Has figurative painting once again become a dominant part of canonical art? [...]

  • The Simple Complexity of Line; A Yareah Exclusive of David McDowell’s Latest Line Drawings.
  • What makes a good painting?
    What makes a good painting is not a matter of fact but a matter of opinion. It seems to be an accepted notion within contemporary art that good art can be either very loud or very quiet. A good portrait is no longer defined by the skill of the painting. It is [...]