Artist     David Carpanini
Title      Last Shift
Date      1994
object    Painting
Media    acrylic on canvas
Size       63.5 x 46cm
Ref          860

Purchased from the 144th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1996

Other websites featuring this artist's work
www.rwa.org.uk/memfrm.htm
www.atticgallery.co.uk
www.newenglishartclub.co.uk
www.rcaconwy.org

Last Shift
David Carpanini’s drawings, paintings and etchings are almost entirely devoted to the presentation of the industrial scene of South Wales. Lonely figures, bleak hills, ramshackle backyards, perching terraces of houses, dominating chapels and ragged roadside sheep are the images to which he is faithful, and to which he attributes the development of his creative imagination. His inspiration lies in the contemplation of the familiar. He believes that a man has a special relationship with that part of Earth which nourishes his boyhood, and it is in the valleys and former mining communities of South Wales, scarred by industrialisation but home for a resolute people, that he found inspiration for his work. The stark landscape and close-knit, often claustrophobic, social infrastructure have been used to explore certain aspects of the human condition.

Although solidly representational, David’s work speaks eloquently of abstracts - fear, isolation, loneliness, dignity, pride and hope. Those who saw the Channel 4 and HTV programmes on his work will remember these pictures and the authority with which they distil poetry from those ordinary, everyday facts which go almost unseen by most of us.

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