Three Pots, Four Tulips

David Gleeson RI SGFA | Acrylic on Canvas | 21 x 21 inches 

David Gleeson is a representational painter and teacher, who creates carefully wrought portraits, interiors and still life’s. He was born in Manchester, studied at Aberystwyth University, 1975-8, and settled in Stafford, where he taught painting and drawing part-time.

“My still life’s frequently feature objects with personal or autobiographical meaning: things I collect, memories, moments. They are a contemporary take on the idea of still life, quiet meditations on the transience of time and celebrating the wonderful in the ordinary. I paint stories, life in a subtle dream disguised, which then astonishes.

When painting, a moment of strange beauty appears on the surface after careful observation and meditation. A fleeting instant transformed, by colour and tone, into an intriguing image. Each of my paintings tells a story, but I prefer it to be a story that is not fully explained. I like the idea that the viewer can complete the story.

As I paint, I do a lot of putting in and taking out, so the narrative is constantly changing, which keeps me intrigued. I like that sense of mystery about a painting.” David

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