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David Tress is a British painter noted particularly for his deeply personal interpretations of landscapes in and around his home in Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales. He combines the techniques of collage and impasto with conventional painting and drawing to produce results that have been categorized as a form of abstract expressionism.
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Learn about the life and work of David Tress, a London-born artist who has lived and painted in West Wales since 1976. Explore his landscape and figurative paintings, his influences, his awards and his exhibitions.
David Tress. Widely regarded as one of Britain’s most inventive landscape painters, Tress moves beyond a landscape's immediate appearance and evokes a state of mind: a sense of self in relation to place, its primordial history, and the wild, cyclical rhythms of the seasons and elements.
Learn how David Tress draws the landscape of Pembrokeshire with graphite, charcoal and paper, creating a fierce and expressive vision of nature. Explore his influences, techniques and inspirations, from Abstract Expressionism to Graham Sutherland.
David is widely regarded as one of Britain’s most inventive landscape painters, capturing an essence that goes further than the landscape’s immediate appearance and qualities, but digging deeper in its relationship to the self, history and context, seasons and elements.
Born in 1955 in London, Tress studied at Harrow College of Art and Trent Bridge Polytechnic, Nottingham. In 1976 he moved to Pembrokeshire. He taught history of art at University College of Wales Aberystwyth and since the 1980s has earned his living as an artist.
