David Monteiro
"Indifference to everything except your canvas. The ability to work like a locomotive. An iron will." Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I am an artist based in Dublin. Trained in multiple mediums my work aims to explore unique landscapes. More recently I have been focused on two types of contemporary landscapes: the fantastical zone of the Botanic hothouse with its curious combination of interior and exterior spaces and the hybrid space of the botanic garden with its peculiar intersection of the tropical and the temperate.
For the most part I like to work with colour media: colouring pencils, pigment-based markers pens and crayons, oil pastels, and acrylic paints. I prefer bold compositions and striking colour palettes and contrasts. And more and more, having started out as a miniaturist, I prefer larger studies on archival paper or on canvas.
Most recently, I have been working to expand my digital art portfolio and aim to produce limited edition runs of archival prints.
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IRELAND
- Date of birth : 1982
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- Groups: Contemporary Irish Artists
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Added Jul 10, 2021
A Botanic Phase
My current work is tending to relate to my interest in all things botanic. This is the work that quarantine produced somehow and so it is my curious testimony to that (ongoing?) period.
I suppose we have all looked for something to comfort us during this time, and for me one of those things was of course drawing and painting of course, but also, as it wasn't possible to paint and draw people or social situations to the same extent, I found myself gravitating towards gardens, parks, and botanic gardens, and found myself drawing grasses, leaves and ferns. Many of us have been out walking, walking dogs or ourselves, and loitering to various extents in that relavitely safer zone: the outdoors.
We have been separated from each other, and from ourselves even, and for me, it was interesting to explore spaces that seem soothing in a new way. Visiting them under these circumstances we see them in a new light.
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