I’m always looking to capture both light and shade in my work which is often observational. I work from a feeling, an emotional response to a subject, and aim to capture this in the painting. My work includes figurative, landscape and abstract. Award Winner: Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Royal Academy of Cambrian Artists, and Wales Contemporary Adam De Ville
Adam De Ville is a self taught artist working in a variety of mediums. His work includes landscape, abstract, portrait, figurative, cityscape, and collaboration.
At the heart of Adam’s approach to painting is
showing how the subject makes him feel.
Storytelling is also an essential part of his work.
Adam has exhibited with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (award winner), Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (award winner), Wales Contemporary (award winner) ING Discerning Eye, and Royal Cambrian Academy of Art (award winner) as well as galleries in London, Scotland, Dublin, and Paris.
CV:
he Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2024
Royal Academy of Cambrian Arts Annual Open Exhibition 2024
Solo show: The Doorway Gallery 2023
Highgate Contemporary Art Winter Exhibition 2023/4
Highgate Contemporary Art: Summer Exhibition 2023
Award Winner: Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Friends Exhibition 2023
Award Winner: Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Annual Open Exhibition 2023
Award Winner: Wales Contemporary 2022, Waterfront Gallery, and Gallery Oxo
The Gallery Holt, Outside the Lines, 2022
Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery ‘Winter to Spring’ exhibition 2022
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2023, 2022, 2020
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours 2021, 2020, 2019 Award Winner: Dry Red Press Award, 2021
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition at The Mall Galleries 2021, 2018
Bath Society of Artists Annual Exhibition 2021
Painter Stainers Masterpiece Collection
Lilford Gallery, Kentish Landscape, gallery anniversary group show 2021
The Gallery Holt, Connected by Colour, group show 2021
Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, Still Life Exhibition, group show 2021
Figurative Art Now Exhibition, British Federation of Artists 2021
The Gallery Holt, The Natural World, group show 2021
Wales Contemporary 2020/21
The Gallery Holt 2020, Group Watercolour Show ‘A Narrative’
Painter Stainers Art 2020
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize Exhibition 2020, 2018
Solo show, Lilford Gallery 2020
Solo show, The Doorway Gallery, 2020
That Art Gallery, Bristol, ‘Together/Apart’ group exhibition 2020
Highgate Contemporary Art Gallery, London, ‘Works on Paper’ 2020
The Affordable Art Fair, London, with The Doorway Gallery
The Affordable Art Fair, London, with Lilford Gallery
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize Exhibition 2019
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, All Media 2019. Award Winner: Highly Commended
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2018, 2019
Flux International Exhibition, Chelsea, London 2018
Parallax, Kensington, London 2018
Group Show, Store Street Gallery, Bloomsbury, London 2017/18
Group Show, McGillan and Woodall, Ramsgate, 2018
Solo and Group shows, Stark Gallery, Canterbury 2016
Group Show. Fishslab Gallery, Whitstable 2016. Award Winner: Highly Commended
Artist in Residence, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury 2016
Featured Artists, Abstract Magazine
