David Remfry Worthing, United Kingdom, b. 1942

Biography

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Remfry is a figurative British painter and curator with a long-established reputation as a watercolorist. He studied art and printmaking at Hull College of Art and Design from 1959 to 1964.

 

He is perhaps best known for his large-scale watercolors of people dancing, portraits of his neighbors and friends at the Hotel Chelsea New York City, where he lived from 1995 to 2016, and his fashion drawings for Stella McCartney.

 

Remfry had his first solo show in London in 1973 and more than 50 international solo exhibitions since then. His work has been shown at Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; the DeLand Museum of Art, Florida; National Portrait Gallery, London, among others.

 

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Bass Museum of Art, Florida; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; the British Museum, London; the Contemporary Art Society, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; the Royal Watercolour Society, London, and the Victoria y Albert Museum, London.

 

For more infomation visit the artist website.

www.davidremfry.com