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David Caines’ paintings celebrate both the unusual and the mundane. Recent series have included tributes to amputees and circus performers, detailed landscapes of the moon’s surface, and ‘portraits’ of photographs he has found in the street. Figurative and abstract elements collide in his pictures – characters often appear to have wandered into painterly planes of simple marks and flat colour.
“David’s paintings often represent groups of seemingly disparate people who seem unaware of each other, don’t relate to one another, yet share a space on the canvas. I heard someone describe the work as poignant just now and I think that’s true. Without wanting to get too deep, it seems like a comment on the human condition, that in the end we’re all alone.” Simone Periera Hind
“A sense of nostalgic sadness and a celebration of the perfection of classic design.” The Guardian
David was born in 1963 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. His art education was at Chelsea College of Art & Design in the 80s. In 1994 he held his well-received one-man debut show at the Tabernacle Gallery in Notting Hill. Since then he has exhibited at numerous group shows and regularly sells his work to private collectors and associates. Recently he has begun to curate group shows under the SALON16 banner and in 2009 exhibited in his house in North London.
Many of the works on this website are for sale.
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