About

David Inshaw is a modern Romantic, a painter and printmaker whose work is embedded in what Geoffrey Grigson called ‘the form and language of nature’. Like Samuel Palmer, about whom Grigson was writing, Inshaw is a visionary artist who came to realise that nature could be the vehicle and context for his most deeply-felt experiences. He paints the landscape and the human figure, and his territory is similar to the Wessex of Thomas Hardy (a writer who has been a continuing inspiration to him), focusing on Devizes and the Wiltshire Downs but extending into Dorset and West Bay.

For Inshaw the …