David Brooke / Painting / Web links + +

St Michael's Studios, 1stFloor, St Michael's Studios, St Michael's Trading Estate, Bridport. DT6 3RR Tel - 07791 205693

David Brooke is an Artist working in Acrylic Paint, Oil Pastel, Pencil and Pen & Ink. His work is strongly designed and his paintings are both bright and colourful. The images are aimed to catch the eye, then, hold the viewer's attention while they look deeper into the subject matter and structure of the picture.

David likes certain themes, which are loosely based on mythology, but embellished by his imagination.  Figures stride through the landscape with leaves and branches growing out of their bodies and mouths, an elaboration to the extreme of the 'Green Man'.  Men and women are seen striding over the backs of fish playing in the surf of turbulent seas, or carry fish around with them, or make them jump through hoops.  In some paintings the figures become part fish themselves like mermaids. 

David's earlier works are illustrations of actual myths and legends, but he began to believe that since people knew the stories they did not look at the paintings as works in themselves but only saw the story depicted and so his more recent works are not based on any particular legend, but by there subject create the feeling of myth or folk-tale. There is often something of a humorous or quirky nature about his work. His earlier works are oil paintings, in 1994 he changed to acrylics first on canvas and more recently on paper. During his career David has produced numerous pen & ink drawings and occasionally he works with oil pastels.

Since moving to Bridport David has produced a whole series of paintings based around a couple walking under an umbrella through a violent rainstorm, and walking on the beach after the storm, and other paintings that have a comfortable domestic feel to them

David is a past president of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, and is also a member of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, the Society for Art of Imagination, the National Acrylic Painters' Association and the Bath Society of Artists.

Directions
From South Street turn down Gundry Lane. At the end turn right and then immediately left past the weeping willow tree. St Michael's Studios are on the left just next to Cornucopia. Go up stairs. The studios are located over two floors.