Sam Douglas works in a tradition of British visionary landscape painters of the past such as Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, and Paul Nash. Like many of his 19th and 20th century forebears, he spends a large amount of his time travelling, sketching and painting outdoors. Whilst this is where his artistic process begins, it is only the starting point for the production of paintings which are much more to do with how he ‘feels’ about the natural environment and the emotional responses it stimulates than the physical topography that initially lies before him.
Sam Douglas works in a tradition of British visionary landscape painters of the past such as Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland, and Paul Nash. Like many of his 19th and 20th century forebears, he spends a large amount of his time travelling, sketching and painting outdoors. Whilst this is where his artistic process begins, it is only the starting point for the production of paintings which are much more to do with how he ‘feels’ about the natural environment and the emotional responses it stimulates than the physical topography that initially lies before him.
Sam writes about his practice that “I’m always working on a lot of paintings at once in the studio, building up and sanding back layers of paint and varnish in a way I like to think of as akin to the geological processes of sedimentation and erosion. Beneath many paintings is often the strata of previous images that sometimes emerge like archaeological remnants.”
Education
Royal College of Art, London, 2005-2007, MA Fine Art Painting
University of Brighton, 1999-2002, BA Fine Art Painting- first hons
Exhibitions
Transpositions, St. Petersburg Museum of Nonconformist Art, Russia, June 2015
NCCA Group show, Kronstadt Museum of History, Russia, April 2015
Lights in Houses, Jacob Sande Museum, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, February 2015
@PaintBritain, Ipswich Museum, Suffolk, November 2104
Contemporary British Painting, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Yorkshire, November 2014
Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, September 2014
East London Painting Prize, Bow arts, The Nunnery, Bow, London June 2014
Signal over noise, Pictorem Gallery, London May 2014
Pedra Sina Project Space, Funchal, Madeira, January 2014
Signal Failure, Legion TV, London, December 2013
Wayfarer, (solo show), Carslaw st. Lukes, London, June 2013