Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork
Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork
Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork
Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork Duncan McCormick Artwork
 

Duncan McCormick makes paintings that are pointedly and deliberately upbeat and optimistic. His chosen subjects are, as he says, "like long-remembered daydreams": memories of childhood holidays at Salcombe Bay on the Devon coast become more redolent of California and the Mediterranean; Scottish mountain landscapes under snow are re-imagined as Alpine scenery; and deserted streets and empty gardens are bathed in permanent summer sunshine.

 

Starting with a thin, flat application of pigment, McCormick applies the quickly drying acrylic paint swiftly, maintaining the sense of spontaneity that is essential to his work – the point, as he says, is "getting the colour onto the canvas". The riotous, luminous tones enhance the dream-like quality of his work.

 

These paintings are part of McCormick's conscious response to the onset of Covid and lockdown. Having married and become a father of twins, he and his wife had moved from the London suburbs to rural North Shropshire. With his isolation redoubled by the outbreak of Covid, his subject-matter moved from complex narratives, laden with symbolism, to more simplistic and deliberately escapist scenes rendered in acrylics.

 

Duncan McCormick was born in Birmingham in 1977 and attended Hallfield Preparatory School and then boarded at Ellesmere College in Shropshire. Showing an especial talent for art he spent a foundation year at Bournville College, Birmingham, and later took a degree in art and drama at St Martin's College, Lancaster. Thereafter he alternated between devoting time to his art and the need to earn money, working in the theatre in his early days and latterly as a professional print-maker with his own screen-printing press. Today McCormick's paintings hang in some of the most important private and corporate collections – in 2018 Morgan Stanley commissioned a series of 11 paintings for the offices in Canary Wharf – while in the past year his paintings have achieved notable prices at auction, where bidders have included collectors from Taiwan, Turkey, Hong Kong, Europe and America.

ARTWORKS

Duncan McCormick Artwork

London Night 2022

Acrylic on Canvas
152 x 122 cm
59 7/8 x 48 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Pink Beach Ball 2022

Acrylic and Watercolour on Canvas
70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Sea Rose 2021

Acrylic on Canvas
61 x 91 cm
24 x 35 7/8 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Jack's Cabin 2020

Acrylic on Canvas
122 x 91 cm
48 x 35 7/8 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Pink Sky With Skater 2020

Acrylic on Canvas
122 x 91 cm
48 x 35 7/8 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Early Doors 2019

Acrylic on Canvas
76 x 152.5 cm
29 7/8 x 60 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Showers 2022

Acrylic and Watercolour on Canvas
70 x 100 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

NY Night 2022

Acrylic on Canvas
152 x 122 cm
59 7/8 x 48 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Summer Bay 2021

Acrylic on Canvas
152 x 122 cm
59 7/8 x 48 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Land Liner 2020

Acrylic on Canvas
152 x 122 cm
59 7/8 x 48 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Setting Sail 2020

Acrylic on Canvas
152 x 122 cm
59 7/8 x 48 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Ooops 2022

Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 80 cm
47 1/4 x 31 1/2 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

The Open Window 2022

Acrylic on Canvas
91 x 122 cm
35 7/8 x 48 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Bay With Spikey Plants 2020

Acrylic on Canvas
92 x 61 cm
36 1/4 x 24 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Nook 2020

Acrylic on Canvas
122 x 91 cm
48 x 35 7/8 in
Duncan McCormick Artwork

Snowy Mountain Dream #1 2020

Acrylic on Canvas
152 x 122 cm
59 7/8 x 48 in

BIOGRAPHY

Duncan's paintings are pointedly and deliberately upbeat and optimistic. Many of his subjects are, as he says, "like long remembered daydreams" – memories of childhood holidays on the English coast become more redolent of Florida or California, and Scottish mountain landscapes under snow are re-envisaged as the Swiss Alps or Aspen. They have a pop art manner, of simplified forms and heightened colours, his coastal scenes are deliberately pared down with lines of neon colouring, and many feature idyllic landscapes viewed from inside a house, an echo of childhood yearning.

Duncan McCormick was born in Birmingham in 1977 and studied art at Bournville College, Birmingham, and later took a degree in art and drama at St Martin's College, Lancaster. He spent some years as a professional print-maker with his own screen-printing press, a process that continues to inform his art today as certain motifs are often repeated in a variety of different ways.

In 2018 Morgan Stanley commissioned a series of 11 paintings for their London offices in Canary Wharf, and in 2023 two of Duncan's paintings were purchased by the Pérez Art Museum in Miami.

 

Solo Exhibitions

Jan 2024 - Solo presentation of new works at ART SG 2024, Waterhouse & Dodd, Singapore

Dec 2023 - "Duncan McCormick", Waterhouse & Dodd, Art Miami 2023, booth AM520, Miami, FL, USA

Nov 2022 - "Far Breeze: Paintings by Duncan Robert McCormick", Waterhouse & Dodd, London, United Kingdom

 

Group Exhibitions

2023 - "Summer Group Show", Waterhouse & Dodd, New York

EXHIBITIONS

ART SG 2024, "The Four Seasons" 17 - 21 Jan 2024

Solo presentation of Duncan McCormick's works at ART SG 2024 fair in Singapore with Waterhouse & Dodd Contemporary.

 

WORKS

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Summers End 2022

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Pink Beach Ball 2022

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Showers 2022

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Far Breeze 2020

 

 

 

Art Miami 2023 04 - 10 Dec 2023

Solo presentation of Duncan McCormick's newest body of work at Art Miami fair during Art Week Miami 2023.

 

WORKS

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Blue Pool 2022

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Sycamore Hotel 2023

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Irish Heart. English Breakfast 2023

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Hand In Hand 2023

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Cool Waters 2022

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Happy Pool 2022

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Playroom 2023

Duncan McCormick Artwork

English Holiday 2023

Duncan McCormick Artwork

French Rain 2023

Duncan McCormick Artwork

Two In A Tub 2023

 

 

INSTALLATION VIEWS

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