David Henderson‘s recent paintings, drawings and watercolours has opened in an exhibition at New Farm’s Graydon Gallery on Friday 22 March.
Henderson is a Brisbane artist, however will be showing pieces of Venice and Rome where he has spent extended periods living and working. The exhibition will also include subject matter taken from closer to home in Brisbane including Hillside Crescent, which will form the core of a group of locally produced works. This presentation will add to his 30 solo exhibitions which have been showcased in Brisbane, Melbourne, London and Rome.
He has received prizes from the Royal Academy Schools and Rotary Art Spectacular and commendations from the Tattersall’s Landscape Art Award and Royal Queensland Art Society. To make a successful painting Henderson explains, it is not necessary to work from subjects famous for their visual appeal. “While just about anything can be the starting point for a painting, the most rewarding subjects are those which on some level engage my imagination,” he said. “In Rome for instance, it is impossible not to be moved by a sense of the passing of time, and of the unfolding of history. If on the other hand I paint the light of Brisbane I’m confronting my personal history.”
David now paints full time and divides his year between Australia and Italy.
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