David Gormley
Still Life With Cherries
£400.00
£400.00
Watercolour
27cm x 27cm
Beached Boat-Galway
£500.00
£500.00
Watercolour
45cm x 27cm
Boat Builder, Northern Harbour
£450.00
£450.00
Watercolour
37cm x 27cm
Viewed Through A Window At Home
£850.00
£850.00
Watercolour
50cm x 35cm
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David Gormley
DAVID GORMLEY
David Gormley was born in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, in 1937 and studied Painting and Drawing at Sunderland College of Art and Design before carrying out National Service within the RAF (1956-1958).
In the late 1950’s, David taught Painting and Drawing, whilst making etchings and developing an increasingly strong interest in printmaking, which subsequently became his main pre-occupation for an extended period of time. This ultimately led to the full-time teaching of printmaking in 1961. Upon his retirement from full-time teaching in 1987, David returned to painting as his primary activity. Naive, solid blocks of child-like colours form the paintings. David Gormley creates still lifes and landscapes of Chagall-like simplicity, peppered with that painter’s motifs of doves and flowers and echoing his use of flat, bright light.
David’s bright, clear naive paintings are ideally suited to illustrate children’s books, and his paintings adorn ‘The Mouse, The Bird and the Sausage,’ by JH Stubbs and David Gormley and ‘Taddy the Lamplight and Other Stories’.
Exhibitions of David Gormley’s work have taken place in the UK, Scandinavia, Canada and Tibet.