David Puttick

David Gerald Puttick (born Hampshire, UK, May 13, 1963) is an “outsider” artist of passion and intensity who has been making art throughout his life. Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic in college at age 20, his health has seesawed through the years. He sees faces in the cracks of sidewalks and bark of trees and “finds” them in his fierce, mixed-media, drawings of paint, pencil, ball-point pen, and bitumen paint (tar).

“Recently, I have noticed faces in natural forms such as trees, stones, paving stones, and other places, (even in Formica and mass produced tiling where a vision of general ambience is the norm). I believe this process of recognition goes back to pre-history. My course of enquiry has covered the Fibonacci sequence, our desire to create form out of the random, and embracing the unknown or unconscious. I photograph, document, and collect objects, and draw/paint my own interpretations of what I see.” David Puttick, 2017.

All drawings shown measure 22 x 16” and date from 2017.

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