Painting 'On The Prowl' by David Eustace
Today we experience the quirky world of British artist David Eustace.
Painter David Eustace plays with the viewers of his figurative paintings. He uses images that hover between conscious and subconscious states producing a mixture of wit and mysticism. A musican himself Eustace believes painting is like music. Often the artist or composer intends to form a beginning, middle and an end but finds himself drawn off in a slightly different direction to make his creation look or sound ‘right’. It is, he says, a philosophical experience, which is “easier felt than telt.”
Eustace was born in 1950 and over the years has developed a number of themes to his art works which he employs in a random fashion. If he stays with one theme too long his interest soon wanes.
In his contemporary paintings Eustace observes and then records the day to day world around him presenting it with an individual style and viewpoint. Subjects are sometimes dislocated from their surroundings or hover lending an air of mystery. There is a three-dimensional dream-like quality to his contemporary art. Painting with acrylic on board David overlays this with a light oil glaze to enhance depth and colours.
David Eustace was awarded membership of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2003 and in the same year was the winner of the RBA David Wolfers Memorial Prize. He is represented by Red Rag Gallery
The featured art work ’On the Prowl’ is made up of layers both visually and metaphorically. The prowling cat in the foreground is preceded by a prowling man who appears to be watching a naked woman walking through water on what appears to be the next ‘plane’ or layer of the painting. Beyond the figures a white castle. The painting is full of quirky detail and has an individual style and surreal quality.
Red Rag Gallery – Contemporary British Artists
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