Original work by DAVID FIELD
Oil on canvas
Framed size 38 x 31 cm (28 x 23 unframed)
Signed, 2023
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David Field (b.1937) is a formally trained British painter whose work captures the theatre of everyday life along the coastlines of south-east England and west Wales.
Field’s paintings are defined by a strong sense of symmetry and balance. His compositions are often centrally framed, lending a post-modern, almost hyperreal stillness, like a tableau paused mid-narrative. A soft, pastel-leaning palette enhances this storybook quality, while small, telling details of human life are observed with gentle humour.
In west Wales, Field turns to the landscapes around Newport and Fishguard in Pembrokeshire. Green hills, open skies and beaches are rendered with the same symmetry, balance and compositional clarity that define his work.
Now in his late eighties and still painting, David Field’s work feels newly resonant. While his career has unfolded largely outside the commercial spotlight, David’s paintings reveal a distinctive and quietly assured voice, one that feels both timeless and strikingly contemporary. Deeply British, quietly cinematic, and perfectly attuned to contemporary interiors seeking narrative depth and a sense of place.
David Field said: “I often take the bus from Fishguard to St David’s, and I always carry a tiny sketchbook that fits in my pocket. On that journey I’m looking constantly through the window. On this occasion I saw a bonfire, a cluster of birds in a tree, and a tower in the distance. I make quick visual notes, tiny, almost random drawings. It isn’t about recording a specific location. It’s more an assemblage of incidents. I paint largely from memory rather than directly from the subject. Over the past few years I’ve worked in this way, collecting small notations and allowing them to settle.
When I first moved to Wales I found it difficult. I had been painting urban images in the south for years, and suddenly I was faced with open landscape. I wasn’t sure how to respond to it. It took time.
Gradually I felt I had something to say about it. Though I’m still a little torn between the two places. I miss the Kent coast at times, because the source material there felt so immediate and vivid. But Wales has its own rhythm, and I’m still discovering it.”
Original work by DAVID FIELD
Oil on canvas
Framed size 38 x 31 cm (28 x 23 unframed)
Signed, 2023
Free UK shipping included with purchase price
Please get in touch for international shipping costs
David Field (b.1937) is a formally trained British painter whose work captures the theatre of everyday life along the coastlines of south-east England and west Wales.
Field’s paintings are defined by a strong sense of symmetry and balance. His compositions are often centrally framed, lending a post-modern, almost hyperreal stillness, like a tableau paused mid-narrative. A soft, pastel-leaning palette enhances this storybook quality, while small, telling details of human life are observed with gentle humour.
In west Wales, Field turns to the landscapes around Newport and Fishguard in Pembrokeshire. Green hills, open skies and beaches are rendered with the same symmetry, balance and compositional clarity that define his work.
Now in his late eighties and still painting, David Field’s work feels newly resonant. While his career has unfolded largely outside the commercial spotlight, David’s paintings reveal a distinctive and quietly assured voice, one that feels both timeless and strikingly contemporary. Deeply British, quietly cinematic, and perfectly attuned to contemporary interiors seeking narrative depth and a sense of place.
David Field said: “I often take the bus from Fishguard to St David’s, and I always carry a tiny sketchbook that fits in my pocket. On that journey I’m looking constantly through the window. On this occasion I saw a bonfire, a cluster of birds in a tree, and a tower in the distance. I make quick visual notes, tiny, almost random drawings. It isn’t about recording a specific location. It’s more an assemblage of incidents. I paint largely from memory rather than directly from the subject. Over the past few years I’ve worked in this way, collecting small notations and allowing them to settle.
When I first moved to Wales I found it difficult. I had been painting urban images in the south for years, and suddenly I was faced with open landscape. I wasn’t sure how to respond to it. It took time.
Gradually I felt I had something to say about it. Though I’m still a little torn between the two places. I miss the Kent coast at times, because the source material there felt so immediate and vivid. But Wales has its own rhythm, and I’m still discovering it.”
