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David Rees Davies ARWS

@davidreesdavies5024

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Artist. Recent exhibitions: RA Summer Exhibitions 2025, ‘26; Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual 2025; RSPP Drawing Prize 2026 (Prize Winner)

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‘Waiting For The Cape Doctor (3)’ Portrait of Steve Bloom, wildlife photographer extraordinaire and anti-apartheid photographer. A prelude to a future bigger painting, when Steve can sit for me. @stevebloomphoto #peopleiknowpeopleiusedtoknowpeopleidrathernotknow #royalwatercoloursociety by @davidreesdavies5024

‘Cemetery Road’ and ‘Quarella Road’. (new series): SWIPE LEFT. ‘Thinking, Listening, Walking, Remembering’: linking the theme ‘From Brynna To Merthyrmawr & Other Stories’ exhibited at The Welsh National Eisteddfod, Bala, 2009. The exact locations are still to be found in my home town of Bridgend, South Wales. #royalwatercoloursociety #contemporaryart #ukartistsonline #geniusloci #circa1971 by @davidreesdavies5024

‘Still Life, 26:10:26’ (AKA -The Elephant In The China Shop). #royalwatercoloursociety #contemporaryartart by @davidreesdavies5024

Following my recent post here’s a few pages from a limited edition book of etchings I made way back in the early 80s called ’Norfolk Curios’ - SWIPE LEFT TO SEE MORE - courtesy of The Arts Council of Great Britain [Eastern Arts]. I am indebted to the great Ed Middleditch the then Head of of Painting at Norwich School of Art to make full use of the school”s etching facilities to ‘help get some life in the damned place and set a good example - none of the students are using the bloody it! Brian (Selby) the technician will sort you out with anything you need, he’s bored stiff and would welcome the company’. #norfolkcurios #contemporaryart #edmiddleditch #kitchensinkschool #peopleiknowpeopleiusedtoknowandpeopleidrathernotknow by @davidreesdavies5024

‘Swan On The River Adur, 19:10:26…swimming against the tidal flow’. #dailyobservations #westsussex #campaignfortheprotectionofruralengland #royalwatercoloursociety by @davidreesdavies5024

An Unpleasant Quick-Tempered White Van Driver From Essex, Devoid of Friends or Sense of Humour, Taking Time Off From Hanging The National Flag From Lampposts, Spending His Hour In Lieu in an East Sussex South Coast Dungeon - Suddenly Realising He Has Completely Forgotten His ‘Safe Word’. #contemporarybritain #contemporaryportraits #peopleiknowpeopleiusedtoknowandpeoplei’drathernotknow2 by @davidreesdavies5024

‘Letter From Pasha/Man In The Mirror, 15:10:26’ 🇺🇦. 2 x exposures.
#royalwatercoloursociety #contemporaryart #contemporaryportraits by @davidreesdavies5024

‘A Goth Pulling Her Coffin Suitcase, Catching Her Bus Outside Brighton Station, Alva’s Murmuration Mug and Bev’s Facial Documentation Evidence’ ….and other random diary /tabletop observations. #studionotes #contemporary #2026 by @davidreesdavies5024

Two of my still-life watercolours currently on show at the RWS Gallery, Autumn Exhibition 2026, Thames Riverside, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH- Blackfriars tube/ train stop- adjacent to Tate Modern. The show runs til Saturday, October 31st.
info@banksidegallery.com for further enquiries.
(Many thanks to fellow member Olivia O’Sullivan for the pics in my absence)Swipe for close ups.
#royalwatercoloursociety #banksidegallery @royalwatercoloursociety #contemporaryart @oliviasullivanartist.com by @davidreesdavies5024

‘Portrait of Alva Funnell, Artist, Nattiest Dresser In East Sussex and Proud Mother’. watercolour. #contemporaryportraits #summer’26 #royalwatercoloursociety by @davidreesdavies5024

“An Inebriated Man Standing In An English Pub Urinal Contemplating Getting a Radical ‘Balaclava’ Face Tattoo - As He Keeps Losing His Knitted Ones From Amazon Whilst On His Trains To And From The Coast.” #contemporaryportraits #facialtattoos #modernbritain #contemporaryart #kunst by @davidreesdavies5024

‘Recent portrait of Alva Funnell’ (watercolour) I’ve drawn and attempted painting Alva a few times- each previous times she sat with her characteristic wide smile and sparkling mischievous eyes, always full of stories from her youth-especially as a very young life drawing student at the old Brighton College of Art. Her anecdotes of one her contemporary classmates Michael Heath (who went on to fame doing Great Bores of Today for Private Eye magazine) are wicked. Covid put the kibosh on the last sitting.
I still own one of Alva’s exquisite decorated mugs with a murmuration of starlings, which I seem to recollect using in a still-life.
#sussexportraits #watercolourportraits #royalwatercoloursociety #privateeyemagazine #michaelheathcartoonist by @davidreesdavies5024