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David Body
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History:
David was born in Twickenham, England in 1947. He studied illustration
at Twickenham College and worked in various London advertising agencies
and design studios for ten years before his move to Caithness, in
the Highlands, with his wife Sally to set up Scarfskerry Pottery in
1977. In 1987 the pottery was moved to John O’ Groats and subsequently
renamed John O’ Groats Pottery and Gallery where he now has
his studio. David is now devoting most of his time to painting that
has always run alongside his ceramics. see below for artist's
statement
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Statement:
David paints naturalistically and in more colourist abstract styles.
His images have evolved over the years and can now be more graphic
in appearance. The Highland landscape is his main source of inspiration
although recently David has been looking to the Puglia region of
Italy, where he visits regularly.
For the last few years David has produced portraits of his English
Bull Terrier ‘Chalkie’. These are now taking on a life
of there own, especially since the loss of ‘Chalkie’
at the age of ten. These are studies of the character and complex
personality that was ‘Chalkie’. Exhibiting these paintings
has now resulted in commissions of other dogs and cats.
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