David AP Thomas
David Thomas studied fine art in Cheltenham, Cardiff and Leeds.
He has worked and lived in North Yorkshire, near Skipton, for over 30 years and shares a studio, Junction Workshop, with the ceramicist Anna Lambert. He was artist in residence at Craven Museum Skipton 2006-8, won the “artists’ artist” prize at the first Artfest North in Kendal and was shortlisted for the New Light painting prize in 2016 & again in 2020. He has shown work widely around the UK and held an exhibition with Anna at Det Gule Huset in Oslo in 2018.
David paints (mostly) still-lifes. Drawing from observation plays a large part. There is something quiet & unassuming about the careful study of inconsequential objects that can produce work of formal pleasure & strange monumentality.
Sometimes it’s about taking the ungraspable flood of sensation of being alive & rendering it in gobbets of paint. Sometimes it’s just painting pictures.
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