In December 2023, Waterhouse & Dodd Contemporary presented a solo exhibition of 23 paintings by British artist Duncan McCormick at Art Miami. This exhibition showcased the breadth of McCormick's unique vision, characterized by optimism, hope, and the delight found in life's small pleasures.

About the Exhibition

Dates: 5th - 10th December 2023

Venue: Art Miami

Gallery: Waterhouse & Dodd Contemporary, 16 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL

All works in the exhibition were painted in acrylic and watercolour on canvas, showcasing McCormick's mastery of these mediums and his distinctive artistic style.

Foreword

I am delighted to present an exhibition of 23 paintings by the British artist, Duncan McCormick.

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.

In the past year Duncan has become our biggest-selling artist, attracting buyers from around the world and his works are now in many important collections in the UK, USA, France, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, UAE and Lebanon.

This solo exhibition of Duncan's work at the Art Miami fair is a unique opportunity to appreciate the breadth of his unique vision, one of optimism and hope, of happy memories and the delight in small pleasures to be savoured now, all depicted with a lightness of touch and a gentle sense of humour. They are, as I hope you agree, a tonic for our times.

Jonathan Dodd, London, 2023