David Drain: Scotland
The process of creating a finished painting for David is a journey of discovery and a balance between intention and chance, between planned and unplanned, between accident and control.
David's constantly-evolving body of abstract work contrasts emphatic structural elements with overlapping screens of pale colour, as if sun-bleached or washed by the salt of the sea. His multi-layered, deeply-textured paintings refer both to refined minimalism and dynamic tension between the intentional and the discovered, the raw and the refined.
His work is deliberately sculptural, employing marble-paste, charcoal, sand, acrylics, rusted iron and copper, resulting in a weathered patina of rich subtleties. The resulting paintings are surprisingly light, papery, and ethereal, yet rooted in palette-knife strokes of dimension and texture.
David's constantly-evolving body of abstract work contrasts emphatic structural elements with overlapping screens of pale colour, as if sun-bleached or washed by the salt of the sea. His multi-layered, deeply-textured paintings refer both to refined minimalism and dynamic tension between the intentional and the discovered, the raw and the refined.
His work is deliberately sculptural, employing marble-paste, charcoal, sand, acrylics, rusted iron and copper, resulting in a weathered patina of rich subtleties. The resulting paintings are surprisingly light, papery, and ethereal, yet rooted in palette-knife strokes of dimension and texture.