David Edmond

Living in London, a city where the environment is a geometric
ordered disorder, it’s inevitable that David Edmond would want to capture this
in his paintings. The artist carries a camera everywhere with the intention of
collecting images and ideas for future paintings. He searches obliquely for the
familiar but overlooked, scenes that have both figurative and abstract
qualities. He has piles of the snapshots in his studio which he sometimes work
directly from but often extracts elements, reassembling them in order to create
new compositions in his paintings.

David is especially drawn to work that balances figuration,
abstraction and the painterly. The work of Milton Avery, Richard Diebenkorn,
Mama Anderson and Hurvin Anderson all have these qualities and while David’s
Street paintings are closer to the original photographs than the work of these
painters, the abstract considerations are similar. Wolfgang Tillmans’ photographs
have also influenced this body of work with their strong abstract qualities and
you can see the influence of Edward Hopper’s use of the solitary figure in the
urban landscape and his painting of light as a tangible thing, shadow and
contrasting light intensifying the mood of each of David’s paintings.

David began painting in 2009. Since then his work has been included in a number of exhibitions including the Beep Painting Biennial 2022, Jul-Aug 2022, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions of 2022, 2020 and 2019, The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Gallery, 2018, the Lynn Painter Stainer Prize, Mall Gallery, 2017, Discerning Eye, Mall Gallery, 2016, Arcade Fine Arts, 2016, Turps – Art Bermondsey Project Space, 2016, Adel Ashanti Gallery, 2015 and Clifford Chance Annual Pride Art Exhibition, 2015 and in June 2019 at the Creekside Open. His work has also been shown at the Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden in 2017, 2018 and 2019. His work has been bought by national and international collectors.