Monday, April 2, 2018

Artist of the day April 2: David Inshaw, British contemporary painter

David Inshaw (1943) is one of Britain's leading contemporary artists. He studied painting at the Beckenham School of Art from 1959 to 1963 followed by three years at the Royal Academy Schools, London. In 1964 was awarded a French Government Scholarship to study and live in Paris for six months.

In 1966 he organized the Young Contemporaries Exhibition in London and started teaching printmaking and painting at the West of England College in Bristol where he remained as a lecturer until 1975.

During the 1970s Inshaw was a member of the Brotherhood of Ruralists exhibiting alongside Peter Blake and Graham Ovenden. He left the group in 1983.

David Inshaw caught the public imagination in 1972 with his painting The Badminton Game. Acquired by Tate Britain it was used as the public image for their Art in the Garden exhibition. Another of his best known paintings is The Cricket Game set in Little Bredy, West Dorset.

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Mr David Inshaw

1969, My feelings for a fish, a girl and an aeroplane

1970, Magpie

1971, Moon and Chimney I

1971, The Raven

1971, The room

1971-72, Our Days Were a Joy and Our Paths Through Flowers

1972 Homage to Virginia Woolf

1972, Landscape on the Salisbury Road

1972-73, The Badminton Game

1973-78, Presentiment

1974, She did not turn

1975, Moon and Alf at Avebury

1976, The Cricket Game

1977, The Orchard

1982-84, The Garden or The Game of Blind Mans Buff

1984, A Dramatic Incident in the Wiltshire Landscape

1984, A Dramatic Incident off the Dorset Coast

1984, Wiltshire Landscape

1984-85, Picnic on the Downs

1985, Wiltshire Landscape, Silbury Hill

1985-87, Figures in a Wiltshire Landscape A Moment

1986, Figure in a Wiltshire Landscape Surprised by an Owl_ I

1986, Silbury Hill on a Starry Night

1987-88, Wiltshire Landscape

1988, The cricket Game II

1988-89, Standing Stone, Avebury, Wiltshire

1989, Portrait of Silbury Hill in May

1990-99, The rescue III

1992-95, Garden Bonfire and Landscape

1994, Artist and Wife

1994, Chestnut Tree

1994, Cloud study, Rainbow

1994, Hand Holding

1994, The Lighthouse

1994-95, The Rucksack (Anticipation)

1995-2014, Pyrotechnics

1996-98, Storm at West Bay

1996-98, West Bay with Helicopter (Sunburnt Shoulders)

1997-98, Still Point Woodborough Bridge II

1998-2004, Pussy Willow

2003, Buoyant

2004, Swallows

2004, The Cricket Game III

2005, Geoffrey Smith and Victoria Huxley and family

2006, Alison and her Mum

2006, Rosie in Bristol

2007, Bonfire

2008, Ian and Morny Davison

2008, Silbury Hill in the Moonlight

2008, Storm Over Silbury Hill

2008, Women Drinking Champagne

2010, Red Tent

2011, Dancing Couple

2011, Mistle Thrush

2012, Oak Tree, Bonfire, Moon and Firework

2012-13, West Wood

2013, East Cliff with Figures

2013, Winter, St Ives

2013, Woman and Earthwork

2014, Coastguard Station, St Ives

2014, Pink House, East Cliff, West Bay, 2014

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