David Grosvenor is one of the most popular artists currently working in Wales. Born in 1956, he moved to North Wales in 1991 to paint full-time. He has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout Wales and has been exhibiting with is since 2011. His paintings appear in collections world-wide, including The House of Lords Collection.
David is painting constantly, returning to the same views time and time again. Each visit reveals something new, the seasons and the weather and the light, and the artist's mood always shifting, always changeable. Each painting a portrait of a particular aspect of something familiar at one particular moment: 'Look', he is saying, ' this is it now! And now it's changed, gone…'
And while he seems to be trying to capture what is there in a straightforward way, he builds the picture around a particular element: the line of a fence which seems to reveal, or dictate the striations of the fields and mountains rising behind. He makes work which is eminently accessible.
There is an immediacy to the work. He is fearless in his use of colour, sometimes dazzling with brightness and jarring contrast, while at other times there are subtle and muted gradations. Often there is harmony, and sometimes he allows the moments of dissonance to remain, captured. He can reduce the view to its lines and shadows and blocks of colour; bright water and sullen rock and tangled light - a kind of abstract world of colour and light, like looking through eyes brimming with grateful, excited tears.
After several sell out exhibitions, David Grosvenor has had further exhibitions with us in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024. David returns again in August 2025.