Gillian David is an artist based in the idyllic East Sussex countryside.

Colour combinations that alter through the play of light and shadow flirt with me, and I respond sometimes with the immediacy of layering acrylic or with soft meditative veils of water colour, evoking an airy spacious atmosphere. Weather, mood, and seasonal changes convey my inspiration for land and seascapes wherever I go, expressed in the delicious viscosity of oils. Charcoal used with an un-mediated hand and finger contact with the paper has an airy quality where light and shadow can blend and merge. Knowing each art material individually, highlights its unique personality.

Over the Changing Hills

My inspiration comes from an inner response to local land and seascapes that I encounter in Ashdown Forest and on the South coast. Delicious colour combinations catch my eye, particularly as they quickly alter in the play of light. I am captured by atmospheric effects in the panorama of ever changing scenes. I use a narrow palette of colour seeking subtle changes of tone and hue.

Colour Dance

Forms and colours flow intuitively as layer after layer of colour is applied. Spontaneity and playfulness is at the for front welcoming the surprises that emerge and simplifying the subject to rhythm and colour expression.

A Marching of Flowers

The cycle of a flower as it lulls into Autumn. The richness of colour fading into the warmth of the earth. These rhythms move the oils over the paper to create a marching of flowers.

Light and Dark

Charcoal smudged with an un-mediated hand and finger contact with the paper produces an airy quality where light and shadow can blend and merge. Dreamy images emerge in-between reality and imagination.