Structures
This abstract work uses a multi-faceted composition and colourful palette to explore the expressive potential of watercolour, as well as the interrelationship of nature and culture. Architectural details and fragmented elements of a natural landscape are combined within the work’s overarching compositional structure, creating a dynamic image that plays with multiple perspectives and the ambiguity of its chosen subject.
About the Artist
David Bridgeman
b. 1959
Born in Oxford, Bridgeman acquired a BEd (Hons) at Worcester College of Higher Education and moved to the Cayman Islands in 1987 to teach. As a professional artist, he has received important commissions from the Cayman Islands Government and from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation. His work is in private collections and the public collections of CNCF, CINM, NGCI as well as at the Governor’s Residence. He is a founding member of the Cayman art collective C4. NGCI exhibitions include: Anchored in Landscapes (2005) and Arreckly: Towards a Cultural Identity (2007), Art of Assemblage (2013), The Road Not Taken (solo show, 2014), Metamorphoses (2014), tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015), All Access (2015), Upon the Seas (2017), Mediating Self (2017), Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial (2019), and Tropical Visions (2019).
