Dave Thomas

Based in the South West of England David Thomas studied Fine Art at Ravensbourne and Slade schools of art. He taught fine art for many years in colleges of art throughout the UK. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and, less so, abroad. Dave works across a range of media including photography, printmaking and three dimensional disciplines. Living fourteen years in North Wales engendered a passion for the landscape and unique geology of the area. Exploring the hills and summits in and around Snowdonia facilitated an instinctive visual response to Welsh geography. Landscape painting seemed a natural means of responding to this new found interest.

Artist's statement

I try not to recreate an image, instead, I use it as a reference point to develop a new interpretation. The aim is to produce paintings about the landscape, the intrinsic essential particularities that give it, its inherently distinctive character. I am not interested in painting something that already exists. I want to use paint to explore forms/marks which will ultimately carry emotional weight.

In a world preoccupied with technology, there is something remarkable about painting.

“I love the expressive mark making possibilities of using oil paint, moving the surf...

Ravensbourne College of Art BA 1st class hon
Slade school of Fine Art post grad

Young Contemporaries, Royal Academy
New Contemporaries (prize winner), Camden Arts Centre Serpentine Gallery, London
Three Sculptors, Mount Bures, Suffolk
Kingston Arts, Kingston-upon-Thames
The Gallery, Acme Studios London
Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk
East Anglian Open, Kings Lynn
The Minories, Colchester
Norwich Artists, Norwich School of Art Gallery
International Sculpture Exhibition, Castellanza Milan
Westminster Sculpture Proposal Exhibition, London
Loggia Gallery, London
Cahill Grebler Gallery, London
Sculpture in East Anglia, Ipswich
Manchester Academy
Northwich Library Gallery, Cheshire
UK Year of Visual Arts, Shaddon Mill Visual Arts Centre, Carlisle
Dukes Oak Gallery, Sandbach, Cheshire
The Salt Museum Northwich Cheshire
Knutsford Civic Centre, Cheshire (photographs)
The Salt Museum Northwich Cheshire (photographs)
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