Award winning Glasgow graduate - Sam Drake
New to the website today, graduate artist Sam Drake is already gaining recognition with a selection of awards and shortlists including selection for the 2017 RSA New Contemporaries show, award winner of the 2016 Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, selection for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize at the Mall Galleries and recipient of the Richard Ford Award and Travel Scholarship to Museo Del Prado, Madrid.
"Each painting has a particular narrative often referencing history, literature and painting theory. Each piece aims to create a layered and ambiguous plot. I want my works to be reminiscent of dusk or moonlight, an overall sombre tone where figures loom amongst fragmentation. By rendering tight controlled areas of paint against large swabs of abstraction I want the language of paint to suggest a rip or tear which is then fused into a coherent whole." - Sam Drake
Sam Drake in his studio.
Blut & Boden by Sam Drake
Fisherman's Friend by Sam Drake
Heath by Sam Drake
