David Kim Whittaker artworks consist of mixed media paintings on canvas or panel, painted studies incorporating collage and occasional assemblage ‘still life / portrait’ sculptures and more recently written verse and sound installation. His artworks are a harmonised conflict of delicate figurative and expressive abstract elements. Most of Whittaker’s paintings are based upon a metaphysical interpretation of the human head. The portraits are ambiguous, with the ambitious aim of representing the totality of the human condition, both the universal alongside the personal.

The works often juggle dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict, offering a glimpse of strength and fragility, the conscious and the subconscious, the masculin...