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About New Collection
To open the door on a David Napp exhibition is to enter a world of light and colour. His
work may be compared with Les Fauves - the ‘wild beasts’ of the early twentieth century
who included Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck and whose pictures Exploded in the Parisian
art world like a bomb. Never had such colours been put together, it was a new way of
looking at nature. David himself says, ‘I have a passion for brilliant colour and this is
reflected throughout my work. I love experimenting with colour harmonies and contrasts,
for instance putting deep magentas into greens, placing bright blues amongst reds,
breaking the so-called rules of colour by making cool colours come forward and warm
ones recede.
Finding one’s subject can take time and when finally chosen there is the study painting that
ensues, realised en plain air with plenty of notations and sketches for back-up reference.
To capture the essence of my subject matter I must work in situ.’David has painted many
pictures in the South of France and for this exhibition he has worked from a cottage along
the Canal du Midi, and also in Florida, a new venue.
The answer to the question: ‘How long does it take me to paint a picture? Why all my life
of course.’
David trained at the Canterbury College of Art 1981-1985 and lectured at the Kent
Institute of Art and design 1988-1992. He has shown widely - one man shows at the
Nevill Gallery, Catto Gallery, Walker Gallery and shown also at the British Art Fair, Art
London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Society of British
Artists.
He has contributed to “ Artists and Illustrators “ Magazine, twice doing their front cover,
“ Trees, Flowers and Foliage “ ( Batsford ), “ Pastels Workshop “, ( Harper Collins ) and “
Encyclopaedia of Pastel Techniques ) ( Quarto )
He twice won the Elisabeth Greenfield Foundation Award and was runner up for the
student medal, Chartered Society of Designers.
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