* DAVID RALPH SIMPSON (BRITISH b. 1963)
OLD CACTUS & YOUNG IRIS

oil on board, signed and dated '98, titled verso
mounted, framed and under glass

image size 37cm x 37cm, overall size 64cm x 64cm

Note:

Painter, muralist and installations artist, born in Plymouth, Devon, who gained a fine art honours degree at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1982–5. He won a South West Project Art Award in 1988; a South West Arts Marketing Grant in 1989; and a three-month studio placement award with Delfina Studios Trust, Bristol, in 1993. In 1989 he carried out a mural for Television South West, followed in 1995 by murals for Exeter City Council. Group shows included Laing Landscape and Seascape Painting, at Pelter Sands Gallery, Bristol, where he was a prize winner in 1990 (he won the South West Regional Prize in 1994); Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Newton St Cyres, from 1991; and High Point Fair, North Carolina, America, 1996. Solo exhibitions included Gallery Gilbert, Dorchester, 1997 and Oliver Contemporary, 2005. That show, Under Cloud Nine, included allusive landscapes, painted with an economy of means, for which the artist is noted.