previous exhibitions:

David Tress - recent drawings and paintings
28 January - 26 February 2005

Since settling in Pembrokeshire in 1976 David Tress has become a landscape artist. Having spent his early years in London, he demonstrates his excitement and passion for the countryside by becoming totally physically involved with his pictures.

‘His pictures are not just pure celebration, hymns to the spirit of the place, but are more likely to encapsulate in their very method of making some of the timeless violence of nature, red in tooth and claw. For Tress attacks the surface of his pictures, most usually when the support is a heavy watercolour paper, and scratches and gouges it with finger, knife, or screwdriver. When painting in oils on canvas or board, he might score the paint with a brush-handle or palette knife, but paper is more responsive to abrasion.'
Andrew Lambirth, December 1994.

It was not until he settled in Wales that he began to draw, and to teach himself the practical and traditional skills associated with representational art.

Please note, where you see a red dot - - the picture has been sold.