Daniel Preece

Born 1970 Lives and works in London.

My work has mainly been about the landscape, focusing primarily upon the urban environment. I was initially drawn to the gasometers and tower blocks that populated the area I grew up in around southwest London, The paintings has evolved from a pictorial landscape tradition, working directly from observation and referencing the work of the Euston Road School, the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher, and the paintings of Edward Hopper. My recent paintings use a number of themes as a starting point Recording the city from high and oblique vantage points and making work that hovers between abstraction and figuration. Using photographs taken in low light reconciles my desire to make work using a personal colour palette but creating paintings with believable space and forms that the viewer can project their own personal experience into.Returning to drawing directly from observation has helped me acquire a more conceptual aspect to the work. I seek out the beauty in banality and the absurd juxtapositions of the city. I am trying to fashion together disparate pictorial influences into a coherent painted surface. Ultimately I want to express the excitement and dynamism of the city while encouraging...

2006-07 Princes Drawing School, London E1 Post Graduate Drawing Year
1989-93 Slade School of Fine Art, London, WC1BA (Hons) Fine Art
1988-89 Chelsea School of Art, London, SW7Foundation Course

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2015-16 Artist in Residence at Dumfries House
2015 Artist in Residence at Level 39, Canary Wharf
2011 Artist in Residence and visiting Professor at IIFA, Modinigar, India
2008-09 Artist in Residence at Kensington Palace
2001 Runner up - Laing Landscape and Seascape Award
1998 Artist in Residence, Slade Summer School
1997 Second Prize - Gilchrist Fischer Memorial Award
1995 Boise Scholarship to travel and make work in America
1994 Stoves Award Winner
1994 Finalist - Gilchrist Fischer Memorial Award
1993 Henry Tonks Medal for Painting
1992 Slade Project Award to make paintings in North Wales
1991 Second Prize Slade Summer Competition
1990 William Coldstream Prize: Slade School of Fine Art

2012 Commisioned to make a series of paintings about London the Olympic City for Sarah Myerscough Fine Art
2010 Commission to make a painting about Canary Wharf for a private client
2007 Commission to make paintings about New York for a private client
2006 Elected to the London Group
2005 Commissi...

2015 'Intimate Isolation' Project Gallery, Arundel, West Sussex
2013 ‘Olympic Paintings’, Canary Wharf Windows, Gallery London
2010 ‘Landmarks’ Capsticks, Solicitors, Wimbledon, London
2009 'Twilight', Canary Wharf Windows Gallery, London
2008 ‘ELEVATION the City Re-seen’, Gillions Art, Battersea, London
2006 ‘London Panoramas’, Slade Summer School, University College London
1999 ‘London, New York and Paris’, Fox Williams, Solicitors, London
1998 ‘Paintings from America’, Slade Gallery, University College London
1994 ‘Structures’, Slade Summer School, University College London

2015 The Lynn Painter Stainers Painting Prize Exhibition, London
2014 Christmas Show, Browse and Darby, London
2014 From David omberg to Paula Rego: The London Group at Southampton City Art Gallery
2014 ‘I see you here – Project Gallery, Aurendel
2014 ‘Gallery Artists’ - New York Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art
2013 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2013 The Lynn Painter Stainers Painting Prize Exhibition, London
2012 ‘London Now’, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2012 ‘Creatives Cities Collection’, arbican Centre, London
2012 ‘Gallery Artists’ - Hamptons Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporar...