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ART GALLERY
DAVID SLACK
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Monkey Flower
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 20 x H 25.5 cm
£450
Storm
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 20 x H 25.5 cm
£450
Penumbra
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 35.5 x H 45.5 cm
£1,200
Understory
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 35.5 x H 45.5 cm
£1,200
The Cat and The Crane
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 33 x H 43 cm
£1,450
Coast
Oil on Panel
Framed and Signed
Image Size
W 20.5 x H 25.5 cm
£600
sold
Monkey Crows
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 10 x H 15 cm
£200
Morning Light Abaft
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 17.5 x H 28 cm
£900
sold
Blockhead in the Wilderness
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 35 x H 35 cm
£1,450
Joseph Moltedo
Oil Pastel on Board
Vintage Frame and Signed
Image Size W 28 x H 39 cm
£1,150
Queen B
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 16 x H 16 cm
£450
Miss Van Pelt at the Enchanted Castle
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 35 x H 35 cm
£1,450
Those Who Were Left Behind
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 30 x H 306 cm
£1,150
The Hero
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 20 x H 25 cm
£450
sold
Blockhead
Oil Pastel on Board
Framed and Signed
Image Size W 16 x H 16 cm
£450
sold
David Slack
David Slack doesn’t remember a time when he didn’t consider himself a painter. Self-taught and working in oil and oil pastel, he has trained in ceramics and printmaking, silversmithing and stained glass, always interwoven with his painting practice. David has exhibited and sold his work in galleries in London and on the south coast In Rye, Hastings and the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.
“My paintings aim to breathe fleshy life into warmly remembered childhood icons, and plant them down firmly in disparate landscapes drawn from fragments of art history.”
There is a dreamlike quality to the work - we know these characters well, but they are not quite how we are used to seeing them. A bit less polished perhaps, gritty and corporeal. Sometimes seemingly on the brink of some subtle, unnameable peril, but standing strong regardless.
The paintings pivot on the idea of invoked feelings of familiarity and unfamiliarity that can be sparked by unexpected emotional contrast, in subject of course, but also in the notion of light and dark, joy and sorrow, layered memory.
So my body of work is effectively an historical, psychological and emotional collage, and the painting attempts to unify the seemingly discordant ideas into a harmonious and luminous whole.