David Horgan
David is a London based painter who work is emotive, loose, colourful and fast, all suffused with a healthy dose of humour. David's work is predominantly figurative, and therefore aims to convey a connection and empathy with the subject. With his portraits in particular, he hopes to capture personality and spirit in an expressive style.
David is a self taught, London based painter interested in story telling and social commentary. David conveys fictional narratives often with figurative scenes expressed through a faced paced, raw and emotive style all suffused with a healthy dose of humour.
His creative inspiration primarily stems from the intersection of everyday life and visual culture. He draws from fleeting moments, personal encounters, music, film, and the textures of urban environments. Anything from a passing conversation, a striking colour combination, a fragment of literature, or movement in daily life can spark his process, often transforming the ordinary into something quietly poetic and visually compelling.
About David Horgan
David is a self taught, London based painter interested in story telling and social commentary. David conveys narratives drawn from his own personal experience and every day encounters intermingled with popular culture and iconography. These predominantly figurative scenes are expressed through a fast paced, raw and emotive style all suffused with a healthy dose of humour.
His creative inspirations mainly arise from the fusion of everyday experiences with popular culture and imagery. Whether it’s wallpapers, literature, poetry, a piece of clothing, people on the streets, an interesting sound, any texture or color, and, well, his wife dancing!
David is a self taught, London based painter interested in story telling and social commentary. David conveys fictional narratives often with figurative scenes expressed through a faced paced, raw and emotive style all suffused with a healthy dose of humour. Inspiration comes from an amalgamation of every day life and experience intermingled with popular culture and iconography.
Be it how he sees someone put down paint or make a mark, some wall paper, literature, poetry, a dress, local characters, an entertaining soundbite, texture or colour. His wife’s dance moves.
David usually uses acrylic. He likes the immediacy of acrylic, which satisfies him is that he likes to paint quickly, showing the vividness of brush strokes and mixed colors. David also creates monochromatic screen prints, building in multiple layers in a spontaneous and unplanned manner.
He was influenced by so many, but in terms of modernity, Henry Taylor, Chantal Joffe, Danny Fox, Jordy Kerwick a,nd Cassi Namoda are some of the artists who had inspired him the most.