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VENICE
In common with all Albemarle artists, David Atkins is an honest painter, passionate about his work, continuously appraising his painterly skills and pushing his own boundaries in search of new ideas and modes of expression.
In recent years he has shifted his focus from the English landscape, in particular Dorset where he lives, to the urban environment of great cities such as London and New York.
This most recent body of work explores arguably the most beautiful city in the world so favoured for centuries by the many artists drawn to its unique atmospheric qualities and intoxicating array of colours.
‘David Atkins has established himself as an evocative painter of landscapes and, particularly, of the urban scene. His is a broad brush, the sweep and colour of it bold and clear, and he brings to the city the eye for transitory light and temperature and atmosphere that is more usually applied to rural landscape. With him we explore cities, not always in the bright clear Kodak light of the Canaletto imitator, but at dawn and sunset and often in the damp truth of autumn and the tenebrous contrasts of the street at night; his is the sometimes sceptical eye of the honest observer, seeing the Venice that is La Serenissima, as we have all experienced her.’
Brian Sewell
Art Critic
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