Eddie Lock

David Whittaker

David Whittaker was born in Cornwall in 1964. He is self taught. Most of his works are based around the loose form of the human head and it?s metaphysical core. Ambiguous non specific portraits, walking a high wire perfectly balanced between states of calm and conflict, confidence and nervousness, hopes and fears, conscious and subconscious, male and female. They are innately, universally human.

There is a suggestion of the powerful and inescapable link between Whittaker and his art: that both live through each other and that the paintings unmask and reveal a true identity. This identity is ambiguous, internal and ephemeral, our own warren to explore, but where some the tunnels remain blocked consciously or unconsciously. Through art these tunnels can be accessed.