THE RETURN OF THE PAINTER
by According to McGee | York
PRAISE FOR DAVID BAUMFORTH
David Baumforth was born in York in 1942 and paints the places he loves: the North Sea, its coastline and hinterland. Says Financial Times Art Critic William Packer, “Baumforth is a painter of sea and landscape who stands foursquare and unapologetic in the Romantic Turnerian tradition, but, as his powerfully evocative works make clear, it is to the later Turner of the near-abstract, apparently unfinished canvases and the rapid free intuitive watercolour studies, all mist and light and spray, with strange forms
emerging from the shadows, that he is always looking.”
“Anyone who has an eye for art, the deep passionate colour of Turner, the pure loving observations of Constable, must rejoice that our century has David Baumforth.
This work is the real thing, wet with sea spray we can
feel, fresh with gusts of wind, always mysterious, always beautiful.” Sister Wendy, art critic.
- Moorland Path at Dusk (DP 2019 signed) oil paint & mixed medium on canvas 46 x 46 cm £1,400
- Study of Black Nab Saltwick Bay East of Whitby ’Study’ (DP2019 signed) acrylic paint & mixed medium on board 84 x 47 cm Framed in black £2,250
- Breaking Waves on the Marine Drive, Scarborough (DP2019 signed) Acrylic paint & mixed medium on canvas 46 x 46 cm Framed in white £1,400
Internationally well regarded painter David Baumforth returns to his native York for his only solo show of 2019 with his latest collection of portraits of the North East coast.
This is an open invitation to the exhibition launch here at According to McGee gallery, opposite Clifford's Tower, York, 22/06/19, 12pm - 4pm. We hope to see you there!