The art concerns landscape. I paint the artifacts and intrusions on the landscape to reflect apon the fact that this is a constructed environment, scoured, squared and moulded by our work upon it. Beyond this, I am interested in the shared culture that our encounter with the land provokes in us, and the ways in which we shape our space to reflect this.

As part of this cyclical exchange between the internal and the external, I feel that no such painting can be anything but the expression of the inner, imagined, lanscape evoked by our encounter with the outer world. In this light, the paintings are not merely representations of space, but attempts to give symbolic expression to our immersion in the cycles of the natural order.

David Forster: CV

Group Exhibitions

1987-1992 Summer and Winter shows, St James’s Gallery, Bath
1991,1992 Singer and Friedlander exhibition, Mall galleries, London
1991 “The Natural View”, Cutlers exchange, London
1992 Goldberg Art, Argyll Street, London
1993 Happening Gallery, Bristol
1994 “Série Noire”, Galerie le Bateau-Lavoir, Grenoble, France
1998 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
1999 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2000 ARC, London
2000 Society of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh
2000 Aberdeen Artist’s Society
2000 ABC at Edinburgh College of Art
2001 Royal Society of Scottish Painters in Watercolour
2003 Royal Society of Scottish Painters in watercolour
2004 Royal Scottish Academy
2005 Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times, Mall Galleries, London
2005 Lynn Painter-Stainer Exhibition, Painters Hall, London

Solo Exhibitions

1994 Bibliothèque Municipale, Grenoble, France
1995 Galerie le Bateau-Lavoir, Grenoble, France
1997 Galerie le Bateau-Lavoir, Grenoble, France
1997 Musée Jadis, Allevard-les-Bains, France
1999 Patriothall WASPS, Edinburgh
2000 Institut Français d’Ecosse, Edinburgh
2001 Reynolds Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Collective Gallery, Project Room , Edinburgh
2002 Cossachok Gallery, Glasgow
2005 Merz Gallery, Edinburgh

Awards

2001 John Grey Award, Royal Scottish society of Painters in Watercolour
2003 Edinburgh Arts Club Award, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
2005 Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Competition, 2nd prize

Principal Collections

Abbey National Building Society, Bath
Theatre Royal, Bath
Bath Dean and Chapter for George Carey
Wheelabrator Headquarters, Allevard-les-Bains, France
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh

Bibliography

Le Dauphiné Libéré, July 1995
Le Dauphiné Libéré, April 1997
Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné, April 1997
Frank Pavlov, Divers Cités, Supplément Culturel, March/April 1997
Scotsman, Critic’s choice, Neil Cameron 16:10:2001
Preview, Art Review, Elizabeth Mahoney, Feb, March, 2002
Sunday Herald, Catriona Black, 25.04.04
Edinburgh Evening News, 22 04 04
Sunday Times, 04 09 05