David Abbott
Instillation shot of Altitude I
(20/03/26-20/05/26)
Image 2: While We Seek Mirth and Beauty
Acrylic on panel
20x12.5cm
Image 3: Crystal Fountain
Oil on panel
20x12.5cm
Image 4: Lowlands Low
Oil on panel
20x12.5cm
Study for a large painting
Oil on canvas
40 x 25cm
November 2023
A painting of a scene in the film 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 from a photograph I took of the exact view from the location on the River Wye around the bend from Symonds Yat, Herefordshire.
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Hello folks. I’ve been quiet here on Instagram for the last few months, but busy in the studio making work for an upcoming exhibition in June. I’m excited to share more with you on that soon...✨
Whilst waiting for things in the studio to dry or to break up long spells of painting, I have been putting frames on existing work. Here’s 𝘚𝘶𝘯-𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘛𝘪𝘥𝘦 from January of this year wrapped in oak from my grandparents’ garden in Culworth, Northamptonshire. The wood is full of all the gnarly character you’d expect from a tree that grew as it pleased before finally submitting to the axeman’s chop in 1977 and then seasoned for half a century in various garden sheds my dad built just for the purpose in every place our family lived.
Sun-star of Morning-tide Oil on panel 20 x 12.5cm January 2026
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𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘐 continues at @nobleandcommon . Here’s another of my small paintings in the show, ‘Lowland Low’.
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Adam Rawlison @_adamrawlinson
Claire Dorsett @dorsettpaints
David Abbott
Lewis Graham @lewisgraham_studios
Jo Berry @joberry01
Sarah Grant @sfgrant
Tim Patrick @timpatrickpainter * Altitude is an exhibition conceived as a multi-year, perhaps even decade-long, project, bringing together landscape paintings recorded with a title addition, according to their height above sea level. Each work registers a specific altitude, using metres as both a factual or estimated measurement and a conceptual anchor. Through this cumulative approach, Altitude proposes landscape not as a fixed genre, but as an ongoing act of observation shaped by geography, data, and lived experience.
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Lowlands Low Oil on panel 20 x 12.5cm September 2024
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Altitude I
March 20th - May 20th
Join us tonight for a preview of Altitude I (Friday 20th March 6-7:30pm)
Artists include: David Abbott, Tim Patrick, Jo Berry, Claire Dorsett, Adam Rawlison, Lewis Graham, Sarah Grant.
Altitude I is an exhibition conceived as a multi-year, perhaps even decade-long, project, bringing together landscape paintings recorded with a title addition, according to their height above sea level. Each work registers a specific altitude, using metres as both a factual or estimated measurement and a conceptual anchor. Through this cumulative approach, Altitude proposes landscape not as a fixed genre, but as an ongoing act of observation shaped by geography, data, and lived experience.
We look forward to welcoming you for an evening of art and conversation
I am delighted to be showing a few paintings in 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘐 at @nobleandcommon in Worcester, opening this Friday 20th through May 20th.
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Adam Rawlison @_adamrawlinson
Claire Dorsett @dorsettpaints
David Abbott
Lewis Graham @lewisgraham_studios
Jo Berry @joberry01
Sarah Grant @sfgrant
Tim Patrick @timpatrickpainter * Altitude is an exhibition conceived as a multi-year, perhaps even decade-long, project, bringing together landscape paintings recorded with a title addition, according to their height above sea level. Each work registers a specific altitude, using metres as both a factual or estimated measurement and a conceptual anchor. Through this cumulative approach, Altitude proposes landscape not as a fixed genre, but as an ongoing act of observation shaped by geography, data, and lived experience.
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While We Seek Mirth and Beauty Acrylic on panel 20 x 12.5cm January 2025
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Altitude I
March 20th - May 20th
PV 6-7:30pm March 20th
No. 19 Hop Market
Forgate Street
Worcester WR1 1DL
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This is 𝘋𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴, the painting I made for @orchardcottagecornwall following my artist retreat there at the end of September.
It was an amazing week against a challenging backdrop at home that lent the days a surreal, out of time feel. A feeling that was wholly emphasised by the location and order of my days which were centred around walking, stopping in churches and drawing views. Mostly this one which shows the creek winding its way up to Penpol.
Silent nights, not much louder days. Small meals, guitar, Bach, reading in the pub, singing loudly to myself in the evenings. The steady flow of the river. Some loneliness.
Three months later and this painting happened around the edges of large paintings I was (and am still) working through as part of my @pollockkrasnerfoundation grant.
Remembering my time at Orchard Cottage is a form of time travel, within my own life and back through the centuries too. The quiet days spent in the presence of ghosts dropped me into a pool of deep time I am incredibly grateful for. 𝘋𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 will form part of Orchard Cottage’s permanent collection of work, alongside a series of of drawings and works on paper I made on the residency. A thousand thanks to Alexander and his family for the gift of time and space at OC.
Different Days
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 30.5cm
December 2025
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