David Gommon

£18.00

112 pages / 283 x 232mm
softback
ISBN 978-1-911408-63-5

Publication 2024

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Publication Autumn 2024
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David Gommon
Philip Vann

  • The first comprehensive overview of this highly prolific, yet relatively unknown, twentieth-century British painter
  • Text by Philip Vann places Gommon’s work within the wider context of his times and radical currents of contemporary art.

Born into a working-class family in London’s Battersea, David Gommon first studied art at the local Polytechnic when he was sixteen. Aged nineteen, he was taken up by Lucy Carrington Wertheim – the London-based gallerist renowned for adventurously showing work by Christopher Wood, Frances Hodgkins and gifted naive artists – who gave him his first exhibition.

Aided by insights from the artist’s own evocative writings, Philip Vann’s text intricately examines the development of Gommon’s predominantly landscape art – infused with mystical delicacy of colour and subtle audacity of composition that often tends towards surrealism –  rooted latterly in the paradisical surroundings of the Northamptonshire village of Hardingstone where he and his wife Jean lived for several decades.