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David Webb’s paintings push at the same playful possibilities that John McLean, Mali Morris and the late Geoff Rigden all approached, from different directions; but his distillation and…
…I would posit that the external, social world often informs and seeps into works alongside the personal. For example, David Webb’s ‘Galata (Blue)’ is, on one level, a quiet and…
It is the experience of Rachel Busby and David Webb’s paintings that I want to dwell on here, to fix them in words. But words, like impressions, swarm around paintings…
Variations on flags: handmade and bold, uneven and overlapping…
Before we even visit the exhibition of paintings by David Webb and sculptures by Lee Grandjean, its title immediately sets up expectations about its subject matter and references, and its attitudes and values…
I am enjoying seeing two David Webb paintings, a very recent one ‘Untitled (Windmill)’ close to the older, ‘Smoking Room (Blue)’ the former is more abstract the latter more obviously on the edge of figuration. I love its humour and simplicity…
This painting is not flat, but it keeps becoming flat. It is a picture, but it sometimes makes more sense to think of it as a catalogue, or…
Playing with the process of painting, and of abstraction, David Webb‘s now familiar ‘Parcheesi’ form becomes star-like against a blue/green ground in one reading, or alternatively, a figure emerges…
The show provides a glimpse of the current abstract scene and the range of abstract painters working in the United Kingdom…
There is no greater love amongst elephants than the maternal kind. The female elephant gently guides and protects its young, touching it with trunk and legs: something so big caring for something so small…
I came across David’s paintings a few years ago on the web and immediately found they made me curious…
Can you briefly describe what you do?
I paint with acrylic on canvas. Occasionally I work on panel and sometimes use pumice and charcoal with the paint. I also draw; little notes in a small book I carry around with me…
If you ever watch a golfer playing a bunker shot, you will see him start by doing a sort of shuffle in the sand to anchor his stance…
dalla Rosa is proud to present David Webb’s first solo show at the gallery…
Who are the best young painters at work today? This group show of about 30 works is the choice of the Jerwood’s three judges, who are all practising artists themselves…