David Ralph Simpson - Pétanque

David Ralph Simpson is a remarkably spontaneous and versatile painter; a fluent and capable landscape and still life artist, who is also an intuitive creator of abstract, or rather, semi-abstract, compositions. He has many flavours. Different flavours for different days! He draws no distinction between abstraction and more figurative works. However, there is a constant concern that runs through the core of his painting; how the different components interact with each other, in each piece. They push and pull and vie for space. The gestures coexist. There is balance and conflict, sometimes, both simultaneously, which is preferable. It is in these relationships that David’s interest fundamentally lies.

This selection of pieces displays just one small and sensitive aspect of David’s work. A taster. They are gentle studies of closeness, togetherness, a meeting of individuals; the importance of spaces between, the importance of small distances.