David Crawford exhibition

On the 2nd of November I attended David Crawford's "25 years" exhibition. This exhibition included Davids art work over the past 25 years, using a range of art medium. These include oil on canvas, oil pastel, ink, and pencil.

What I particularly enjoy about Crawford's art work is his oil on Canvas. David sometimes chooses to use a Impasto painterly method. He uses Impasto purely as background and paints his image on the foreground. This creates a wonderful and inspirational method I have admired every time I have spotted it in Crawford's art work.

Unlike Crawford's previous exhibition and as stated, Crawford's exhibition this time has no theme. Crawford's previous theme was based on religion and even held in a church. All of his paintings has reference to the Bible and the events and characters within the Bible.

Crawford's collection of paintings are from as early as 1987 and continue to 2012, images are shown below.

Frank Auerbach - 2009
Coloured pencil and ink

National Gallery-2011
Pencil

My Dad-1996
Coloured pencil & ink

Telephone Doodle-1997
Biro

Sleeping Nude-2002
Pastel & pencil

Nation gallery-2007
Pencil

(Left) After Degas-1997, coloured pencil. (Middle) Van Gogh Museum-2008, Conte crayon. National gallery-2007, Pencil

After Leonardo-2009
Pastel and gold leaf

St John candle-2007
Oil on canvas

Close up of St John candle, example of Impasto technique.

After Carravaggio-2011
Oil on board

Olive fields

Mafu smith-2004
Oil on canvas

Reclining figure-2007
Oil on canvas

Stambridge-2009
Oil on canvas

Stambridge-2010
Oil on canvas

Storm over Bickncre-2012
Poster paint on canvas

Still life-2005
oil on canvas

Still life 2005 close up

Yellow tulips-2009
Oil on canvas

Kirsty-2005
Oil on canvas

Lorraine-2011
Pencil

Churchill gardens-1988
Oil on paper

King Philip of Spain-2006
Oil pastel on cardboard

Life drawing-2010
Pencil

close up of Life drawing-2010

The Cakie-Daddies-1989
Oil on canvas

Window-1988
Oil on canvas on board

Close up of Window-1988

Markie's Garden, 2011-12
Acrylic on canvas

Markie's Garden, 2011-12
Acrylic on canvas

Markie's Garden, 2011-12
Acrylic on canvas

Markie's Garden, 2011-12
Acrylic on canvas

Markie's Garden, 2011-12
Acrylic on canvas

Mary Magdalene-2011
Oil on canvas

Close up of Mary Magdalene-2011
Oil on canvas

Sharon-1999
Oil on canvas

Close up of Weeping woman-2006

Weeping woman-2006
Pastel

Close up of Stambridge-2009
Example of Impasto

Extra close up of Stambridge-2009
Example of Impasto

Few images of the paintings throughout this exhibition have been removed due to glare from the picture frame. I enjoyed seeing segments of work Crawford has created spread over 25 years, both old and new still obtained a high quality and great display of artistic skill. Crawford's work is all traditional art medium. there is great strength in his paintings and some methods of lighting and skills had reminded me of Caravaggio's work. All art works displayed are up for sale and will be on display for up to a month (until December 2012) in Eastgate Shopping Centre, Basildon.