David ShepherdHoney Dust, Oil Painting2019
2019
About the Item
Artist Comments
Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's faces. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among other concepts, the work features symbols of power, fashion, beauty and sex. However, David intends for each viewer to have their own opinion of the symbolic meaning. "A lot of people feel like it's seductive, and I do acknowledge that there is some of that, but it wasn't my main focus," says David. "I wanted to feel movement from the painting, it's so close and and so real the movement brings you in and creates emotion and action, along with color and form."
About the Artist
Canadian artist David Shepherd fuses techniques from both old and modern masters to create contemporary interpretations of the human form. While offering strong nods to pop art and cubism, the work remains grounded by David’s training in 19th Century academic realism. Combining discrete techniques within a single tableau is initially jarring to the viewer, creating an unexpected visual complexity in the work and demonstrating the artist’s breadth of skills. “I think in the future we will be much more interested in works of art that show a mastery of multiple styles,” says David. Each artwork effectually suggests the surreal nature of human existence within a convoluted modern society.
Words that describe this painting: honey, portrait, contemporary, sex, fashion, glamour, model, hyperrealist, lips, people, realism, representational, contemporary, oil painting, red, orange
Honey Dust
David Shepherd
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2019
44 in. h x 72 in. w x 1.5 in. d
20 lbs. 0 oz.
- Creator:David Shepherd (1931 - 2017, English)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 44 in (111.76 cm)Width: 72 in (182.88 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Condition:Honey Dust. David Shepherd. Oil painting on stretched canvas. Painting wraps around edges. Ready to hang. One-of-a-kind. Signed on front.
- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
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David Shepherd
David Shepherd was born in the UK in 1931. He was not only one of his generation’s most well-known artists, but also an outspoken preservationist. At the age of just eight years old, he won a painting competition for the magazine Nursery World, marking the beginning of his painting career. Yet, after his school years, he traveled to Kenya in the hopes of becoming a game warden. Though he was rejected, the trip would ignite his passions for wildlife and wildlife preservation. He continued to paint throughout his lifetime, and many of his canvases took as their subjects the wildlife that he had grown to love. In addition to his animal subjects, he also dedicated paintings to the locomotive. He was a famed collector of steam locomotives, devoting much of his time later in his life to the preservation of these powerful engines. Shepherd was heavily involved in the founding of a heritage steam railway, the East Somerset Railway, and owned a number of historic locomotives. Both his painting of animals and steam engines were remarkably popular amongst the collecting public, and they remain highly prized today.
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