(Above) Warmer Waters. © David Rayson, photograph courtesy of Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd
Exhibition Preview - David Rayson, the Everyday Fantastic at Marlborough Fine Art, London from January 15 - February 7, 2009.
The “fantastic” qualities of cigarette butts, droning televisions and bland weather will be illuminated next month in a colourful blast of escapism from the Royal College of Art’s Professor of Painting.
(Above) Dark Bird. © David Rayson, photographs courtesy of Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd
David Rayson has spent the past four years enjoying “escapism on a day-to-day basis through the event of drawing,” resulting in The Everyday Fantastic, a book of 100 drawings giving a surreal twist to the supposed tedium of suburbia.
Forty of the coloured ink drawings will visit Marlborough Fine Art in January, taking in shopping, voyeuristic peeks through curtains and rubbish.
(Above) Sunrise. © David Rayson, photographs courtesy of Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd
“Whether I’m inside or out, everything seems to be continually unravelling and becoming more unreal,” observes Rayson. “I’m drawing out these things in an attempt to make sense of everything and to celebrate my everyday fantastic.”
The Everyday Fantastic is at Marlborough Fine Art from January 15 - February 7, 2009.
Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BY. Open 10am-5.30pm Monday-Friday, 10am-12.30pm Saturday. www.marlboroughfineart.com
