Artist Profile - David Brightmore
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Biography
David is a former art teacher, designer and Chief Executive. He changed direction in 2000 and became a full time artist, and is currently completing an M.A. Fine Art course at Glyndwr University. Originally from South Yorkshire, David initially studied Business Management in Cardiff and then Fine Art in Sheffield. He lived in the Snowdonia village of Rhyd-Ddu from 1985 until 2004, learned the Welsh language and has a close affinity with life in Wales. He has held solo exhibitions in numerous North Wales venues including Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog, where he was Chairman of the Board of Management for four years. He has also been involved in numerous mixed exhibitions in Sheffield, Glasgow and London.
Artist Statement
I have run and walked most of the mountains and hills of North Wales and though my paintings and drawings are rarely specific to one ‘recognizable’ place, they endeavor to express certain essential dramatic qualities of the Eryri environment and more recently the gentler, more lyrical landscape of the Clwydian hills and the urban life of Mold, Chester and Manchester.
Anyone who has been to North Wales will know the range of feelings that can emerge, whether stimulated by atmosphere, weather or just a very 'presence’. If all art is some form of ‘abstract expression’, then maybe mine is a search for the gestures of painting and drawing that relate to the experience of ‘being there’. I am told that my work is ‘vigorous and energetic’; certainly my response to the environment has been both physical and emotional and maybe this comes across.