Solo exhibition by landscape painter Yasmin David (1939 – 2009).
The artist never publicly exhibited her extensive body of work during her lifetime. Over the last ten years her daughter, filmmaker Clio David, has unearthed hundreds of hidden work around the family’s farm, and in 2021 a selection was first exhibited for the first time.
Yasmin David (1929-2009) lived and worked in South Devon for over fifty years. Her work explores the particular light and landscape near her home on the edge of Dartmoor. One of the few women working in landscape during the post-war period, David produced paintings which are both intimate and dramatic, emotional and turbulent, capturing the molten qualities of sky and land. They directly reference the unique relationship between the painter and the land.
“The notion of ‘experience’ is key in the post-war period, as the artist’s engagement with landscape is seen as embodied: they appear to live within and amongst the landscape and become fully immersed in it, in a physical, bodily sense. The material and conceptual layering in David’s work, and her personal, evocative journaling of her daily experience, align her work with this interpretation.” Dr Sophie Hatchwell (Art Historian and Lecturer, University of Birmingham)
Artwork credits: © Yasmin David, Untitled 1 and 2
