about david 111800000 — David Mumby

David Mumby is an artist, writer, and teacher. A native of the north east of England, David moved to London in his twenties, where he has lived ever since. He taught Art for many years, throughout that time maintaining and developing his practice as an artist. His work is made employing a range of creative media, painting and drawing most centrally, with images moving into print, stained glass and artist books.

The works are almost always made in situ, responding intimately and sensually to the place, its textures, its sounds, its colours and light. Work is made in different seasons, often in sequences within books. Highly detailed and luscious paintings of fruit and flowers are made in the studio or in the garden.

David Mumby draws and writes with an acute sense of longing and belonging. His artistic practice and his writing are closely linked, often blurring the divide between word and image, merging poetry with painting. His writing is steeped in the landscape, imbued like his painting, with an intimate and sensual knowledge of place and emotion, conveying all the sounds and the qualities of the light, with a lyric love of language.