David Constantine

UK based artist David Constantine (aka David A Hughes) is a contemporary abstract/portrait painter hailing from Worcestershire, England.

Specializing in what he describes as urban portraiture Constantine’s style was built on the UK streets and later refined at Wolverhampton University and his Black Country studio. His early street work was once found scattered across the UK’s concrete landscape.

Currently the one-time Art student and street artist’s time is confined to the studio where urban influences and classical fine art techniques are fused on canvas.

Constantine uses a variety of media’s and techniques in canvas production. Focusing primarily on traditional oils and acrylic spray. He produces fine artwork for galleries and commission, on wood, canvas, and print.

Artistic Statement:

My work explores the complexities of human form and the figurative relationship between visual emotion and individual personality. It visualises my own personal interpretations of subject expression beyond what is initially observed by the naked eye. A moment or gesture captured in time.

The nucleus of every project is determined by the subjects distortions of strength, weakness, and the visual communication of joy and sorrow.

Overall my primary objective is to create Large scale expressive imagery. Art that refuses to conform to the stereotypical ideals of human beauty. Imagery that blurs the boundaries of conventional portraiture and subject likeness with bold brushstroke abstraction.

April 27th – May 22nd “Urban Shadows – 5pm & Everything After” Solo Exhibition – Artrix Gallery Worcestershire UK

June 3rd – June 19th
John Singer Sargent Short List Exhibition
Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway, Cotswolds

July 4th – July 18th “Between The Thorns”
Solo Exhibition – Chipping Norton Theatre Gallery Oxfordshire UK

July 19th – July 23rd
EH Group Exhibition – Menier Gallery, London UK