David Abbott, Give and Take
2021
Acrylic on birch ply
23.5 x 40 cm, unframed
ABOUT DAVID ABBOTT
David was born in 1981. He moved to Virginia with his family in 1995 where he attended high school and studied fine art at James Madison University. David returned to the UK and completing his MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at The University of the West of England. He lives and works in Bristol but spends most of his free time cycling around the countryside.
David uses paint, collage and drawing to explore the intersection of the natural world and human activity within the landscape. His deep landscapes evoke a spirit place where the land, natural world, present moment, history, folk and personal memory all corral together. The inputs may be mundane or transcendent, but the created moment is a quiet, focused expansion of reality out of which all the work gets made. David is interested in folk song and lore, how it locates and defines people inside a landscape, and centres them – through the evocations of folk memory – when outside it.
2021
Acrylic on birch ply
23.5 x 40 cm, unframed
ABOUT DAVID ABBOTT
David was born in 1981. He moved to Virginia with his family in 1995 where he attended high school and studied fine art at James Madison University. David returned to the UK and completing his MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at The University of the West of England. He lives and works in Bristol but spends most of his free time cycling around the countryside.
David uses paint, collage and drawing to explore the intersection of the natural world and human activity within the landscape. His deep landscapes evoke a spirit place where the land, natural world, present moment, history, folk and personal memory all corral together. The inputs may be mundane or transcendent, but the created moment is a quiet, focused expansion of reality out of which all the work gets made. David is interested in folk song and lore, how it locates and defines people inside a landscape, and centres them – through the evocations of folk memory – when outside it.
2021
Acrylic on birch ply
23.5 x 40 cm, unframed
ABOUT DAVID ABBOTT
David was born in 1981. He moved to Virginia with his family in 1995 where he attended high school and studied fine art at James Madison University. David returned to the UK and completing his MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at The University of the West of England. He lives and works in Bristol but spends most of his free time cycling around the countryside.
David uses paint, collage and drawing to explore the intersection of the natural world and human activity within the landscape. His deep landscapes evoke a spirit place where the land, natural world, present moment, history, folk and personal memory all corral together. The inputs may be mundane or transcendent, but the created moment is a quiet, focused expansion of reality out of which all the work gets made. David is interested in folk song and lore, how it locates and defines people inside a landscape, and centres them – through the evocations of folk memory – when outside it.