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 David Kirk Walberswick, Suffolk 2006 |
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About the artist
(This text appears on the back of the greeting card)
DAVID KIRK (b. 1960)
 DAVID KIRK grew up in rural Somerset and studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford from 1980 to 1983. He is currently head of the History of Art Department at Uppingham School and exhibits regularly at the Rona Gallery in Mayfair, as well as at galleries in Bath and Cambridge. Best known for a kind of rural surrealism in which he depicts mysteriously significant events unfolding in the English countryside, he has been influenced both by Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash. He was prompted to paint Aldeburgh by an advertisement for a competition sponsored by the House of Lords. The brief was to produce a painting in the style of a 1930s travel poster. He has since continued the series, adding views of Southwold, Walberswick, the Maltings at Snape and Dunwich. His painting of Walberswick looks south along the sand dunes towards Dunwich, capturing something of the bleak charm of a stretch of the Suffolk coast which has drawn artists to it since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Many of David Kirk’s paintings are available as limited edition prints through his website, www.davidkirkartist.co.uk . A collection of his paintings can also be viewed (or purchased as prints online) on the Bridgeman Art on Demand Site.
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Catching the bus (click on image to go to David Kirk's website) |
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