DAVID INSHAW
Never and Always
Recent paintings and works on paper
Wednesday 22 July – Saturday 12 September 2020
We are delighted to welcome back David Inshaw, the consummate painter of the English landscape, peopled by dreamlike figures, birds and animals. Called ‘perhaps the greatest living proponent of the English Romantic tradition’ (Spectator), Inshaw invokes the powers of the night, the moon, trees, bonfires, fireworks, the sea, birds, animals, men, women and ancient landscapes to create his intensely personal paintings.
David Inshaw’s new paintings are shown below. Please contact us on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk or phone 01308 459511 to enquire about a painting, drawing or etching or to reserve your place at one of the events as follows:
Event: David Inshaw and Peter Robinson
Conversation, with poetry readings from Bonjour Mr Inshaw, poems by Peter Robinson, paintings by David Inshaw. Tickets: £10. Numbers will be limited.
Saturday 5 September, 12 noon, followed by lunch. Reservations are essential for the CAFÉ SLADERS lunch.
Catalogue
A fully illustrated catalogue of the exhibition with foreword by Simon Rae is available at £10 plus £2 p&p and is available to download below.
David Inshaw’s paintings are in oil on canvas unless otherwise specified and are presented beautifully framed with museum-quality glass. The sizes shown are canvas sizes. Framed sizes are available.
Allegory III 117 x 117 cm £30,000 
Wiltshire Monument 117 x 117cm £30,000 
The Jetty 117 x 117 cm £30,000 
Engine House, Botallack 91.5 x 91.5cm £25,000 
Mauvaise Surprise 91.5 x 91.5 cm £25,000 
Woodborough Hill 61 x 61 cm SOLD 
Water Meadows II 61 x 61cm £16,000 
Silbury Hill and Lake 61 x 61 cm £16,000 
Shadows and White Horse 61 x 61 cm £16,000 
Salisbury Plain 61 x 61cm £16,000 
Salisbury Plain II 61 x 61 cm £16,000 
River Avon, Lacock 61 x 61cm SOLD 
Marcia and the Tent 61 x 61 cm £16,000 
Hercules 24 x 24 inches £16,000 
Fire Eater 61 x 61 cm £16,000 
Etchilhampton Sunset 61 x 61cm £16,000 
Etchilhampton Sunset II 61 x 61cm SOLD 
Wren and Tree 51 x 51 cm SOLD 
Vale of Pewsey 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
The Road to Tilshead 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
Sunset, Clyro 51 x 51 cm SOLD 
Sunrise, St Ives Bay 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
Still Point 51 x 51 cm SOLD 
Sandcastle 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
Mistle Thrush and Tree 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
Marlborough Downs 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
Garden 51 x 51 cm SOLD 
Cloud I 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
Cloud II 51 x 51 cm £12,000 
Bristol Channel, River Parrett 51 x 51 cm SOLD 
Magpie 35.5 x 35.5 cm £8,000 
Crows and Rainbow 35.5 x 35.5 cm £8,000 
Beach Scene, Dorset 35.5 x 35.5 cm £8,000 
Allegory I Study I 35.5 x 35.5 cm £8,000 
Julia in a Hat 31.5 x 31.5 cm £12,000 
Tornado over Marlborough Down 31.5 x 31.5 cm £10,000 
Allegory I Study II 25.5 x 25.5 cm £10,000 
Allegory I Study III 25.5 x 25.5 cm £10,000 
Hannah on a White Horse 25.5 x 25.5 cm £10,000 
Shelagh on Ginger 25.5 x 25.5 cm £10,000 
Sharon 20 x 20 cm £12,000 
Sarah 20 x 20 cm £12,000 
Julia 20 x 20 cm £12,000 
Tree 26.5 x 24 cm £8,000 
Oak Tree 122 x 122 cm pencil on paper £20,000 
Willow Tree 122 x 122 cm £20,000 
Sycamore Tree pencil on paper 122 x 122 cm £20,000 
Bonfire etching and carborundum on paper ed.10 51 x 51 cm £2,500 unframed 
Bonfire Night, Hay Bluff I etching and carborundum on paper ed.10 51 x 51 cm £2,500 unframed 
Bonfire Night, Hay Bluff II etching and carborundum on paper ed.10 51 x 51 cm £2,500 unframed 
Bonfire Night, Red Gate I etching and carborundum on paper ed.10 51 x 51 cm £2,500 unframed 
Bonfire Night, Red Gate II etching and carborundum on paper ed.10 51 x 51 cm £2,500 unframed 
East Cliff, West Bay etching and carborundum on paper 51 x 51 cm ed.10 51 x 51 cm £2,500 unframed
View David Inshaw’s stunning new Giclée prints, which can be ordered by post and many of which are in stock, mounted and wrapped in the gallery.
‘A great pastoral painter and visionary, that rare kind of artist who appears perhaps once or twice in a generation and illumines the world in a new way.’ Andrew Lambirth Guardian
Another England How David Inshaw changed the Landscape of Art Guardian October 2015
‘His landscapes are haunted. You tap into their strangeness on a sensual level: you can feel it in the mood, in the poise, in the light. It pervades the atmosphere as surely as the smell of dew pervades the dawn. The profoundly familiar is made, at the same time, so alien, so otherworldly. Inshaw belongs to a great tradition of English Romantics: he awakens our perceptions to the possibilities of a miracle. No wonder the first time I saw him he had his head in the clouds.’ Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Art Critic The Times (from her foreword to David Inshaw’s 2013 Sladers Yard solo show catalogue).
From one of David’s collectors on receiving his painting: ‘I am thrilled to have this wonderful work. It resonates with me in its summation of eternal thoughts and dreams. It is a beautiful painting, a poem in oil. In charting his own life experiences through his extraordinary talent David has succeeded in connecting with the lives and thoughts of others who share his passions and interests, and who have watched enthralled as he taken us on the journey of his life. I hope he has many more works to come.’
David Inshaw grew up in Biggin Hill, close to Samuel Palmer’s Shoreham. He studied at Beckenham School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, with a six month scholarship to study in Paris, before he started to teach painting and printmaking at the West of England College of Art in Bristol. In 1975, with Peter Blake and five others, he formed the Brotherhood of Ruralists, who devoted themselves to painting subjects drawn from nature and English mythology and literature. Inshaw came to prominence in that period and has exhibited widely and painted his mysterious captivating paintings ever since.
One of his most famous paintings, The Badminton Game, was acquired by the Tate Gallery in 1980. Inshaw was represented by Waddingtons in London until 1998. Since then he has been exhibited at Agnews, the Fine Art Society and most recently the Redfern Gallery. His work has been included in numerous major Arts Council touring exhibitions and museum shows throughout his career. In 2019, Looking Back, Looking Forward a major retrospective of his paintings was held at the London Art Fair in the Saatchi Gallery, London. He has featured in a number of television films including Arena in 1984 and Hidden Paintings in 2011. His work is in many public, private and corporate collections worldwide including His work is in the Arts Council Collection, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, the British Council, the British Museum, The Government Art Collection, The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, Tyne and Wear Museums, Tate and the Wiltshire Museum as well as many of the finest private art collections in this country and overseas. He lives in Devizes.
David Inshaw has seen West Bay and its environs as a place of inspiration since the seventies. His famous Cricket Ground paintings are set at Little Bredy, just up the road. In 2007 he showed an extraordinary collection of major West Bay paintings in the then very new Sladers Yard gallery. He has showed in various group shows here with a second solo show in 2013. This, his third solo exhibition, includes three magnificent tree drawings and a powerful group of etchings based on earlier paintings of bonfires and fireworks in West Bay and Hay Bluff as well as over forty wonderful fabulous oil paintings.
Download the exhibition catalogue with foreword by Simon Rae here or order it from the gallery at £10 plus £2 p&p within UK.
A fully illustrated 48pp catalogue from David Inshaw’s 2013 Sladers Yard solo show, Pyrotechnics, with a foreword by Rachel Campbell-Johnston, art critic for The Times, is available at £5 plus £2 p&p within UK.
NEW GICLEE PRINTS!!!
David Inshaw’s new signed, limited edition (plus some open edition) giclée prints can be bought at Sladers Yard and over the phone (t: 01308 459511) or via email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk. We are happy to ship prints. View prints.
Please call 01308 459511 or email gallery@sladersyard.co.uk with any enquiries.
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Do you have any David Inshaw paintings for sale? price & availability. Also are you planning any more exhibitions of his work?
Thanks for your enquiry. I have emailed you direct and will let you know when we have news of our next David Inshaw exhibition. Best wishes, Anna
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