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David Cobley

a painting looking down on a bare-footed girl sitting on the edge of a bed, with her arms around her knees, with an empty cup beside her

THE FIGURE

alone and with others

"People are endlessly fascinating. I love watching them and I love painting them: people on their own, people in ones and twos and people in much larger groups. I suppose I am trying to say something about solitude, memory, relationships, social attitudes, the psychology of crowds and ultimately what it is to be human." MORE

painting of a girl's back in warm colours under the spotlight against a black background

painting of a young man with a bare torso sitting on the edge of a bed, cup in hand

painting of an elderly man and woman sitting on a park bench in the sunlight

painting in muted colours of a girl lying on a bed, her hand on her waist

painting of a young builder carrying a large board walking in the street from left to right

looking down on the back of a female model sitting on a turquoise cushion under the spotlight

two young boys in a bumping car being driven by a standing man in black

a painting looking down on a girl sitting on the edge of a bed, arms around her knees

a group of carpenters working in the open air on the wooden a-frame of a building

a painting of soldiers in the Middle East loading a field gun in the hot sun surrounded by sandbags

painting of a young man sitting on the edge of a bed, his right hand on his ankle

a stylised painting of a man with bare torso, looking down at his hands

a medieval group of people on a bandwagon moving to the right with 'death; banging the drum

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