David Heathcote

1982 TCR

1983 Gods of War

1983 Masked Figures

1985 Hunters in the Snow

1985 Hunting in Winter

1987 Red Ground Small Targets

1988 Orange Ground White Streams

1988-94 Carnival

1988-95 Green Eye and Ocean Inlet

1989 Blue Opening

1989 Patterns of Movement over a Red Ground

1990 Above and Below

1991 Opening a Window in Africa

1992 Half-length Nude

1994 Autumn Landscape

1994 Spatial Poem

1997 Temples

1999 Drying Her Wings

1999 Guardian Angels

1999 The Moon in a White Mask

2001 Woman Reaching Forward

2002 Family Masquerade

2003 Shaft of Celebration

2006 Algerian Journey

2006 Mysterious Delta

2006 Red Bridge

2009 Traveller's Muse

2009 Tumbler

1996 Pierced orm

1997 Woman in Long Dress

1998 Mother and Child

2000 Blind Girl1

2000 Violinist Kyung Wha Chung

David Heathcote

David Heathcote (born 1931) is a contemporary painter whose work has been evolving for more than fifty years. He has lived in Kent since 1979, after working for eight years in Zimbabwe and twelve in northern Nigeria.

David has used a wide range of media in his work: oil and acrylic paint, collage, printing techniques, assemblage, clay, bronze and stone. Now he concentrates on oil paintings and small preliminary drawings for them.

David’s vivid, often highly abstracted, paintings explore themes of construction, colour and space. His paintings have always been essentially imaginative, though in the past he has regularly undertaken parallel, objective studies, particularly of the human figure, landscape, and sculpture and paintings in museums, though these were rarely consulted when it came to painting. In trying to sum up his own work he can only say, ‘for me creativity is a journey where one is constantly meeting the unexpected. If things go well the composition attains a life and vitality of its own.’ (If it doesn’t it is destroyed!)

David trained at Canterbury College of Art, and later at the Slade under Claude Rogers and Keith Vaughan. A crucial moment for David as an artist was his first awareness of cubism while he was a student at the Slade. Africa has also left lasting impressions, affecting in oblique but forceful ways David’s use of colour and form.