David Drain’s constantly evolving body of abstract work contrasts emphatic structural elements
with overlapping screens of pale colour, as if sun-bleached or washed by the salt of the sea.
His multi-layered, deeply-textured paintings refer both to a refined minimalism and a dynamic
tension between the intentional and the discovered, the raw and the refined.
His work is deliberately sculptural, employing marble-paste, charcoal, sand, acrylics, rusted
iron and copper, resulting in a weathered patina of rich subtleties. The resulting paintings are
surprisingly light, and ethereal, yet rooted in palette-knife strokes of dimension and texture.
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