Dan Wood

I am based in the city of Cardiff, Wales,UK working in my painting studio next to the River Taff.

My work focuses on formal and representational geometric abstraction and the application of paint to a flat surface. It is informed by the investigation of the semiotics of control and the physical forms of functional objects that assist that control.

My paintings explore colour and monochrome pallets using them in the creation of geometric patterns. The process of creating the work is as important to me as the finished image, the aim is for them at first glance to look mathematically precise but at closer inspection there can be see incremental errors.

This idea of imperfection created meticulously through a controlled process where the pursuit of perfection creates errors and the idea of the uncontrollable outcome of control interests me.

BA Fine Art Nottingham Trent University
MA Fine Art Bath Spa University

March 2020 Alumni Show - Bath Spa University
May 2019 - Stronger Together, Blackwater Gallery, Cardiff Bay
January 2019 - Blue Monday, 44AD, Bath
September 2018 - Meanwhile House Summer Exhibition, Cardiff
September 2017 - MA Final Show Bath Spa University
August 2017 – Group Show ‘Someplace’ at Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
May 2017 - Group show ‘Zeitheist’ as part of the Fringe Arts Bath
February 2017 – Group show ‘The Future Can’t Wait’ Black Swan Arts. Froome
January 2017 – One week group residency at the Walcott Chapel, Bath
January 2016 – Group show ‘Words in Collision’, University of Exeter.
January 2015 – Finalist at the Paddon Awards 2015, University of Exeter
March 2014 - Finalist in the Paddon Awards 2014, University of Exeter
January 2010 - Group show - Art Extravaganza show at the Seiners Arms, Perranporth, Cornwall
May 2009 - Group show - Art Extravaganza show in the Krowji Arts Centre -Redruth Cornwall
September 2008 – Group show - Art Extravaganza show in the Riverside Bar, Truro, Cornwall
July 2005 - December 2008 –Represented by the Art Affair Gallery in Torquay
March 2002 - Createx Group show in Stockholm Sweden
December 2001 – Group show - Createx Showcase Evening at Barryman Shacklock solicit...