APT Artists

Ekkehard Altenburger
Heather Burrell
Tim Cousins
Anthony Daley
Jeff Dellow
Arnold Dobbs
Cath Fergusson
Leila Galloway
Nic Godbold
Marilyn Hallam
Liz Harrison
Margaret Higginson
Clyde Hopkins
Stephen Jaques
Mark Knowles
Richard Lawrence
Stephen Lewis
John McLean
Alix MacSweeney
Paul Malone
Chris Marshall
Mali Morris
Geoff Mowlam
Laurence Noga
David Oates
Andy Parsons
Brigitte Parusel
Nicola Rae
Victoria Rance
Geoff Rigden
Hideatsu Shiba
Keir Smith
Lou Smith
Paul Tonkin
Sheila Vollmer
Roxy Walsh
David Webb
Rob Welch

David Oates


oil painings and charcoal drawings

Open Studios

2004

The charcoal pieces are a synthesis of visual stimuli (e.g. photos of deep space, skin texture, archaelogical sites) and my own mark-making (many previous drawings had the generic title 'spoor'). The central white circles are made by erasure, to puncture the illusionistic surface. My paintings are made of many layers of thin glazes to maximise their illusionistic depth. Painted discs, cut-outs (as in 'Bright Reds' and 'Yellow')and compass-drawn circles of thick paint again penetrate the surface to reassert the literal reality of the painting.

 

© David Oates

 


charcoal drawings

2004


Feb, Oct, Mar, Nov

oil paintings

2004


untitled

oil on canvas

2004