David Porteous Butler, Artist

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Painter, Suffolk
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20 March 2010

Fortunately I live and work very near the river Stour, a landscape that has always been an inspiration for artists. As an exponent of knife painting I find any subject involving water ideally suited to my stye. The seemingly endless winter finds me wanting enjoy the other seasons through my work.

My first solo show for the Wren Gallery at Burford in the Cotswolds starts in May 2010 and will include a series of the Stour valley in its various guises.

20 November, 2009

The Christmas exhibition at the Wren Gallery in Burford, will be my first showing at this Oxfordshire gem. The owner, Gill Mitchell, has also invited me to start painting for a solo show in May 2010.

Next year promises to be hectic with another solo at Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich in November. Working under pressure is supposed to be good for artists but in the last four years I seem to have done little else. For sure it is better to paint with a purpose rather than let finished canvasses stack up in the corner,

Well done to the Lime Tree Gallery who have made a brilliant start with my work in their new Bristol Gallery. They obviously have the right recipe for difficult times.

20 September, 2009

Some time ago I departed from my norm and produced an abstract painting with my palette knife. I instantly knew I liked it and also that I was not going to sell it. It meant too much, so I have kept it on the wall of my studio, enjoying it and waiting for the right moment. That moment seems to have come. It’s been a turgid old year economically, but I have been particularly upset by some serious ill health in my family and by the story of the death of a very young baby. Perhaps all this mute emotion gave me to realise what I wanted for my abstract painting. I have donated it to a charity auction in honour of the young baby, who died of Group B streptococcus. You can learn more about the charity at Daydens Autumn Ball.

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