Object Description
David Inshaw born 1943
St Enodoc Church from Brea, Cornwall.
Oil on canvas
Signed dated and dedicated on reverse, 1988.
Framed under glass.
St Enodoc Church is set in coastal sand dunes and up until the 19th century was buried in sand, during the late 19th century it was excavated and the dunes stabalised.
David Inshaw is a British artist he sprang to public attention in 1973 when his painting The Badminton Game was exhibited at the ICA Summer Studio exhibition in London. The painting was acquired by the Tate Gallery and is one of several paintings from the 1970s that won him critical acclaim and a wide audience.
David Inshaw studied at Beckenham School of Art in 1959–63 and the Royal Academy Schools in 1963-66. He took up a teaching post at the West of England College of Art, Bristol between 1966 and 1975. Inshaw moved to Devizes, Wiltshire in 1971 and formed the Broadheath Brotherhood with Graham and Ann Arnoldin 1972. The three artists were joined by Peter Blake, Jann Horworth and Graham and Annie Ovenden in 1975, when the group was renamed the Brotherhood of Ruralists. The Ruralists exhibited together for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1976, Inshaw left the group seven years later, in 1983. He moved to Clyro near Hay-on-Wye in 1989 but returned to Devizes in 1995 and has lived there since.
His work is in many public collections including the Arts Council and Tate Britain.
He has exhibited widely and his work has been the subject of several film documentaries.