David Gommon

by Philip Vann

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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.
  • ISBN10 1911408631
  • ISBN13 9781911408635
  • Publish Date 15 June 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Sansom & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 18
  • Language English