About

David Storey is a British figurative artist based in Hove, East Sussex. His psychologically-charged paintings are an exploration of memory and offer ‘glimpsed’ or half-remembered figures, rescued from a personal archive of the forgotten.

Storey was born in the mining town of Workington, West Cumberland. He attended St. Bees School before moving to London to study at Hornsey College of Art and Middlesex University. After graduation Storey worked initially as a record sleeve designer creating iconic images for the leading musicians of the 1980s.  Since then he has been a full- time painter, reaching audiences across the world.

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David Storey was born in the mining town of Workington, Cumbria, growing up on the coastal plain between the Irish Sea and the English Lake District – a bleak area of dark sandstone architecture and heavy rainfall.

His paintings explore a twilight zone of memory. Canvases peopled by blurred figures rescued from the past, staring back at the viewer like so many statues of antiquity, contemplating eternity.

Much of his darker toned work is tenebristic in style, contrasting the dominant sombre palette with flashes of light to great dramatic effect.

It has been said that art is the moment between a question and the answer, and this is where we find David’s paintings.

Matthew Hall
Panter and Hall Gallery

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Studied
St Bees School, Cumbria
Hornsey College of Art and Middlesex University in London

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