David Wroth Australia, b. 1953
"I am intrigued by texture, the qualities of surfaces that are worked over by the elements and by time, referring to changes and the environment. I work with textural layers and colour to submerge and reveal aspects of my paintings, using accidental outcomes to create structure."
David Wroth has worked in the visual arts industry for 35 years and has been painting since the 1970s. He has been immersed in the visual arts industry, managing art galleries and running development programs with artists. Today he spends time working in his own practice, pursuing interests in colour and texture. His work refers to the coastal landscape and environment, to erasing and degrading of imagery through the effects of time.
The subject matter includes visions of the Indian Ocean coastline combined with images from travelling in other cultures. ‘My work is about texture and the way time lays a patina on natural and man-made surfaces.’ The work is mainly mixed media on canvas, with loosely layered surfaces over underlying paint work. The artist is interested in work of reductivist artists whose focus is honing down visual image to their core structures. Recent works include painting series on Fire Elements and Coastlines, drawing on aspects of Australian landscape and the seasonal calendar marked by Equinox. Artworks are included in private collections in USA, Netherlands, UK, Italy, Singapore and Australia.
