David SCHOFIELD

Resting Place

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type Oil
size 24 x 24 inches

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British Contemporary Artist: David Schofield

Painting: Resting Place

David Schofield produces innovative and imaginative contemporary art with real interest. Unusual and Read more

slightly surreal subjects are juxtaposed in David Schofield paintings.

'Resting Place' is one in a series of paintings where David Schofield has used a circular 'Glasgow tenement terrace' as a surreal frame and 'container' for his subject. The figure of a man turns away from the viewer, a toucan perching on his shoulder. The man is chest deep in turbulent water but does not appear to struggle. Maybe he, or the toucan, has found a resting place.

Schofield plays with ideas of scale, perspective and the viewer's reality versus the fairy-tale imagination.

Over the last few years David Schofield paintings have proved to be a good Scottish Art Investment progressively appreciating in value. With this standard of art work and enduring quality it is easy to understand why.

In addition to Red Rag British Art Gallery David Schofield has exhibited at other leading British Art Galleries and many galleries overseas. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the David Schofield artist studio and like all Red Rag British art and Contemporary art it can be shipped worldwide.