Gavin Maughfling

Born Herefordshire 1960. Trained at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford,and the University of East London. Has exhibited widely throughout the United Kingdom and in Europe. Work held in collections including the United Kingdom Government Art Collection and private collections in Europe and the USA. Artist in Residence at the British Embassy Luxembourg. Recent projects include a major commission for the Howe Dell Eco School, Hertfordshire and 'Close at Hand', co-curated with Nicky Hodge at CAP Projects London. Work currently on loan to HM Treasury. Lives and works in London.

My paintings centre on images of landscapes and domestic lives. In my practice the painting process is a transformative response to initial photographic images through which potential readings can be revealed.

The landscape works are sourced from webcam stills of wildernesses or remote settlements. My engagement with these locations derives from a concern with ideas of the Sublime, and in the complex feelings of terror and awe which arise in us when confronted by landscape on an epic scale.

In these paintings I am exploring sparsely populated or uninhabited locations which I have never visited (though sometimes dreamt about), r...

DEGREES AWARDED:2001: MA Fine Art, University of East London1982: Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Oxford
SELECTED RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:2011:
ArtrailE17, London, 'Hiking in Air Con'.
2005: Lounge Gallery, London, 'Sublime State'. 2003: University Of Hertfordshire, 'Wall Hall'.2002: Galerie Van Der Planken, Antwerp, 'Gavin Maughfling, Schilderijen'.2002: Holland Art Fair, Den Haag, Galerie Van Der Planken.1999: Windsor Art Centre, Windsor, 'Bomb'.1998: Institute of Physics, London, 'Cold Metal'.1997: Orfeo Gallery, Luxembourg, 'Paintings and Drawings from the British Embassy Residency'.1994: Philip Graham Gallery, London.1994: Pump House Gallery, London.
SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:2011:
Mostyn Gallery, Lllandudno, 'Mostyn Open 2011'.
2011: The Others, London, 'Frisk: Manual'.
2008: CAP Projects, London, '00 Nature'. 2007: Lounge Gallery, London,'Wintry'.2007: CAP Projects, London, 'Intimacy '(co-curated with Nicky Hodge).2007: Seo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea,'Sensuous Panorama'.2005: Lounge Gallery, London,'Real Strange'.2001: Prenelle Gallery, London, 'Four Artists'.2001: Elzenveld Foundation, Antwerp, 'Artists from London and Antwerp'.2001: Eugeen Van Miegham Museum, Antwerp, '10 Jaar Galerie Pla...

Mostyn Open 2011, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno. May 21- September 1 2011. Full details at mostyn.org.