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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 enjoy painting them from time to time: people on their own, people in ones and twos and people in much larger groups. Perhaps I am trying to say something about solitude, memory, relationships, social attitudes, the psychology of crowds and ultimately what it is to be human.

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

painting of a male torso from the front, a female body from behind, in black and red

painting of a young woman sitting on a red bed against a red backdrop

a man and a woman sitting at a picnic table having a drink and a cigarette

a painting looking down on a female life model lying on a bed

a male and female figure figure sitting crosslegged and back-to-back on a bed

a painting of a figure with a spray can painting the word 'love' over the word 'hate'

a young woman sitting on a bed looking at her reflection in the mirror

the artist David Hockney painting a hawthorn tree in flower

painting of a young woman sitting on a bed from above and behind

an morbidly obese woman sitting next to a starving child

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