This solo exhibition for David Storey marks an important milestone in his already fruitful career, showcasing the largest collection of new paintings he has ever assembled for a solo exhibition. This exhibition sees him in tremendous form, with new works that reach deeply into his favoured periods of history’s social past with large statement canvases, his beloved egg tempera miniatures and new installation works.
 

Whilst recently shooting a promotional video at his studio in Brighton to accompany the exhibition, David remarked, ‘I am truly excited to see such a large body of my work hung at the gallery for this show, my paintings belong in people’s homes and they only really start to become what I intend for them when they have left the studio and made a connection with their eventual owners.’
 

This sentiment underpins the power of David’s paintings. Over the last six years that we have shown his work, without exception, each decision to purchase a painting has been accompanied by the collector’s desire to express the internal emotion that bonded them to the chosen work. Interested in the ‘edge of living memory’, David creates artworks from periods of the past which stir powerful nostalgic, personal and emotional connections.   
 

Collectors of David’s paintings are often bonded to his works by the associations his scenes create to times past, a transportation back to very real feelings that, whilst distant in time, remain very present in our hearts.  A monumentalising of lives lived, memories fading and intimate ties to the our past.
 

Works are available to purchase online immediately and from Saturday 1st April in the Gallery.  David will be at the opening on Saturday the 1st of April from 3pm to 5pm to introduce and discuss this new collection. Please do join us for a glass of champagne to celebrate this highly regarded and internationally-collected artist.  

A 46 page full colour printed catalogue of the exhibition will be available to purchase for £10 plus postage.  If you would like to pre-order your copy, please contact the gallery on 01386 335229 or email us at art@thestratfordgallery.co.uk.