David Tindle - Artist Info

About David Tindle

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    The images I paint are of things that I know or can remember best. I try to place them in an order that expresses the feelings I have about them. It is not a question of painting them as realistically as I can, but to get the right tonality, so that memory and presence are very close. David Tindle, 1985

    David Tindle RA is among the most renowned British figurative painters of his generation. Born in Huddersfield in April 1932, he held his first exhibition in London at only nineteen years old, and from that point, his career and reputation quite rapidly developed. In London, Tindle befriended a circle of artists that included Francis Bacon, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, John Minton and Keith Vaughan.

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