David Wilson

I am a visual artist who resides and works in Vancouver, Canada. I have exhibited my work both locally and abroad and have a lengthy exhibition history. My patrons include both corporate and private collectors. When I work, I combine bright colors with a loose representation which allows some elements of the paintings to skirt the edge of abstraction while a modicum of representation draws the viewer in to a referenced subject. Acrylic paint on either canvas or board is my primary medium but paintings often include other elements including oil and spray paint, pastel, graphite and a host of other materials at hand. These various mediums are applied with different styles of brushes, scrapers, stencils and rags; whatever utensil is at hand. I like to think the painted image stands above our hyper-accelerated culture and provides an opportunity for individuals to stop and consider, if only for a moment, what someone else is thinking about. In my experience the viewing of a painting, within the absence of the artist and presence of their idea, can be transformational. And it’s that opportunity, or potential, to create a painting that resonates with an individual in some unanticipated way that is ever so enticing to me.

Most of my artistic practice was established on self-directed studies which included some formal studies at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. I work full time as an artist and exhibit my work regularly in galleries and online.

Solo Exhibitions:
2016 Absence, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 Light and Colour, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 New Works, James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland
2014 Intersections, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2013 Construct/Deconstruct, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver BC
2012 New Works, Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2011 If I Could Have It All I Would Give It to You, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010 New Works, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009 Somewhere in the Middle, Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 Transitions, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007 More Than Blue, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Winter, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Here and There: 100 New Works, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2005 Here and There, Aion Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004 Illumination, Aion Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2003 Fragments, Anne Carlson Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
2000 New Works, John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1999 Vancouver Landscapes, John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1993 New Works, Barret-Post Contemporary Art, Vancouver, BC