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Daniel Preece
Born in 1970. He lives and works in London. He studied at Chelsea School of Art 1988–89, the Slade School of Fine Art 1989-93
and the Royal Drawing School 2006- 07. His work has mainly been
about the urban landscape using the city as a starting point to
explore formal issues of geometry and colour that hover between
abstraction and figuration. The paintings have evolved from a pictorial landscape tradition, working directly from observation to
create a sense of place and space using a strong personal colour
palette.Daniel has been Artist in Residence at Level 39, Canary
Wharf in 2016, Dumfries House in 2015 and Kensington Palace in
2008 to 2009. He was Artist in Residence and visiting Professor
at IIFA, Modinigar, India in 2011. In 1995 he was Given a Boise
Scholarship to travel and make work in the USA. He was runner up
in the Laing landscape and Seascape Award in 2001 and
won second prize in the Gilchrist Fisher Memorial Prize for Landscape Painting in 1997.Daniel has exhibited widely with his work
being included in many group exhibitions. These have included
The First International Invited Exhibition of Emei Contemporary
Art, China, The London Group at Southampton City Art Gallery,
The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2015, 2013 and 2010.
The Threadneedle Painting Prize in 2009, the Allen Gallery New
York, in 2008 and in Flowers Gallery ‘Small is Beautiful’ in 2006,
2008, 2009 and 2013 and Five New Artists at Purdy Hicks in
2002. His work has been included in the Canary Wharf Window
Gallery Art Program in 2013 and 2009. He has had a one-man show
‘Hymn to Home’ with Kittoe Contemporary in 2020, One
Paved Court, London, 2017, The Project Gallery, Arundel in 2015,
Capsticks Solicitor in 2010, and at Gillions Art in London in 2008.
His painting Panorama (from Angel Court), London was bought
by the Chinese Government as part of the Creative Cities Collection initiative in 2012and was exhibited at the Barbican Centre in
August of the same year.Commissions have been undertaken for
amongst others, The Canary Wharf Group, Bayer plc
and the Topland Group. Daniel has twice painted the portrait of
the actor Tom Hardy.