DANIEL PREECE

Daniel's paintings celebrates the urban environment. Ranging from vast, majestic panoramas to intimate studies of shop fronts and overlooked corners rendered in his unique, vivid colour palette. We are taken on a journey through deserted city streets at day and night - we peer through shop windows one moment and soar above the city the next.

My intention is to encourage the viewer to consider the city differently and I hope lead them to reassess their daily surroundings with a different eye.’

Daniel’s atmospheric paintings, both bleak and beautiful, are devoid of people, a narrative is hinted at and themes of isolation and consumerism recur. Of course each viewer may see the scene differently - a celebration of the city, of colour, perhaps post apocalyptic or an escape. For Dan it is always an opportunity to explore issues of geometry and colour and the boundaries between abstraction and figuration.

‘The best paintings for me show you something you haven’t seen before; it’s about the artist finding a new way of describing something but allowing the viewer to come to some of their own conclusions’

Church Peckham

2023, oil on canvas, 61 x 76cm | £2,640

Crispy Duck

2020, oil in canvas, 61 x 76cm | £2,640

Primark

2022, acrylic on board, 25.5 x 30cm | £990

Avenue

2010, oil in canvas, 66 x 94cm | £3,080

Power Station - Cranes | 2023, acrylic on paper,

image 20 x 23cm | £825

Power Station - Dusk | 2023, acrylic on paper,

image 20 x 23cm | £825

Illumination

2020, oil in canvas, 75 x 95cm | £3,300

Sign

2020, oil on canvas, 61 x 76cm | £2,640

Estate Agent

2020, oil on canvas, 46 x 65cm | £1,850

Green Shutter

2015, acrylic on paper, 40 x 52cm | £1,595

Shelter

2015, acrylic on paper, 26 x 19cm | £750

Deptford Drift

2018, oil on canvas,120 x 150cm unframed | £6,900

Drop & Carry

2020, acrylic on canvas, 168 x 172cm unframed | £8,000

Facade III

acrylic on paper, 40 x 39cm mounted (image size 20 x 11.5cm) | £550

Vincent In Deptford Study II

acrylic on paper, 45.5 x 60cm (image size 28 x 22cm) | £550

View From Primrose Hill I

2020, acrylic on card, 14 x 20cm | £550

Bandstand (man listens to music)

2012, oil on canvas, 74 x 148cm | £4,500

Read Daniel's article on Gasometers 

for the 

The London Group

Battersea Gasometer

Drypoint on Copper, 2007,edition of 25, 34x38cm unframed

£33

Hackney Gasometer

Drypoint on Copper, 2007,edition of 25, 34x38cm unframed

£33

Rotherhithe Gasometer

Drypoint on Copper, 2007,edition of 25, 34x38cm unframed

£33

Wandsworth Town Gasometer

Drypoint on Copper, 2007,edition of 25, 34x38cm unframed

£33

Water Tower 1 | 2022, acrylic on paper,

image 20 x 23cm | £825

Water Tower 2 | 2022, acrylic on paper, image 20 x 23cm | £825

Water Tower 3 | 2022, acrylic on paper,

image 20 x 23cm | £825

Manhattan

2020, acrylic on paper, 18.5 x 28.5 unframed / 19.5 x 29.5cm framed | £650

New York

2020, acrylic on paper, 18.5 x 28.5 unframed / 19.5 x 29.5cm framed | £650

Birds

2012, oil on canvas, 120 x 100cm | £5,400

Baywatch

2012, oil on canvas, 100 x 120cm | £5,400

Indian Arc Light

2015, acrylic on paper, 76 x 70cm

£1,200

Staircase Study

2011, acrylic on paper, 38 x 34cm mounted (image size 18 x 14cm) | £550

Dan has always made work about the landscape, mainly the urban environment. He observes the world around him and uses drawing as a way of documenting a place and locating himself. The urban landscape provides great opportunities to explore issues of geometry and colour, the boundaries between abstraction and figuration - concerns that fascinate and compel him. ‘The best paintings for me show you something you haven’t seen before; it’s about the artist finding a new way of describing something but allowing the viewer to come to some of their own conclusions’

Dan was initially drawn to the gasometers and tower blocks that populated the area he grew up in around South-West London. ‘In hindsight, they were like urban mountains. Working from these in London gave me the opportunity to easily return to the motif, drawing and painting them directly from observation, then using the images in the studio environment to explore my internal and external responses to these structures. The Gasometers had the same formal elements I was interested in when painting mountains, an ever-changing sense of scale due to light and colour.’

Trained at Chelsea School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal Drawing School.

Awards and residencies include; William Coldstream Prize Slade School of Fine Art, Boise Scholarship to travel and make work in America, Artist in Residence Kensington Palace,  Artist in Residence at Level 39, Canary Wharf.

Solo Exhibitions include; London Panoramas, Slade Summer School; ELEVATION the City Re-seen, Gillions Art; Twilight, Canary Wharf Windows Gallery;  Landmarks Capsticks, Solicitors, Wimbledon; Olympic Paintings, Canary Wharf Windows Gallery; Intimate Isolation, Project Gallery; Paintings about Everything and Nothing, One Paved Court.

Group Exhibitions include:  Assemble Tregony Gallery at After Nyne Gallery, The Lynn Painter Stainers Painting Prize Exhibition; Christmas Show, Browse and Darby;  From David Bomberg to Paula Rego: The London Group at Southampton City Art Gallery; I see you here, Project Gallery; Gallery Artists, New York Art Fair, Alicia David Contemporary Art; London Now, Creatives Cities Collection, Barbican Centre; Sarah Myerscough Fine Art;  Rebecca Hossack Gallery; Approaches to Landscape, Medici Gallery; Threadneedle Painting Prize, Mall Galleries; Small is Beautiful, Flowers East.

Works owned by numerous public and private collections worldwide including; The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, University College London and Paintings in Hospitals.