Daniel Preece

Born in 1970. Daniel lives and works in London, he studied at Chelsea School of Art 1988–89, the Slade School of Fine Art 1989-93 and the Royal Drawing School 2006- 07.

His work has mainly been about the urban landscape using the city as a starting point to explore formal issues of geometry and colour that hover between abstraction and figuration. The paintings have evolved from a pictorial landscape tradition, working directly from observation to create a sense of place and space using a strong personal colour palette.

Daniel has been Artist in Residence at Level 39, Canary Wharf in 2016, Dumfries House in 2015 and Kensington Palace in 2008 to 2009. He was Artist in Residence and visiting Professor at IIFA, Modinigar, India in 2011. In 1995 he was Given a Boise Scholarship to travel and make work in the USA. He was runner up in the Laing landscape and Seascape Award in 2001 and won second prize in the Gilchrist Fisher Memorial Prize for Landscape Painting in 1997. 

Commissions have been undertaken for amongst others, The Canary Wharf Group, Bayer plc and the Topland Group. Daniel has twice painted the portrait of the actor Tom Hardy. In 2012 he was commissioned to make body of work for a project for the Sarah Myerscough Fine Art Gallery, Mayfair to celebrate London’s Olympic year. Daniel’s work is in both private and public collections including The Chinese Government Collection, Dumfries House, University College London, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Forbes, Bayer plc, Unilever plc and the Canary Wharf Group. 

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