David Drain
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→ Solo Exhibition, 70 Artworks, Kulturfabrik Schopfheim, South of Germany, 2025
→ Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid, Group Exhibition, 2025
→ Art World Paris Fair, 2025
→ Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, 2025
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David Drain is a Scottish artist, living in the South of Germany close to the Swiss border and the art city Basel. Since 2016, he has devoted himself entirely to his passion for creating abstract paintings and has exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Spain. His studio is in his home. Visitors to the studio are most welcome, by arrangement.
David Drain studied engineering at University in Glasgow. He worked globally as a project engineer, including in several years in the Ukraine and in the last years of his professional life in the pharmaceutical industry in Basel, Switzerland.
David Drain continues to donate a major part of the proceeds from the sale of his paintings to humanitarian charities.
Creating abstract artworks has become a natural language for me, a means of expression, a way of revealing fine layers of meaning, of mystery held within form and texture, line and hue.
In making my paintings, I find my way, exploring, searching, discovering, playing, reducing, refining, distilling; always with the intention of an unfolding sense of meaning in what emerges, in what I experience as intriguing and compelling.
Growing up in Scotland, amidst ruins of abandoned factories and ancient stone buildings, with their fascinating storied surfaces, crumbling structures, subtle shades of old, weathered stone walls, has proven to be a source of lasting inspiration in my work.
By employing materials such as marble paste, charcoal, ink, paper, acrylics and sand on wood panel and canvas, my paintings capture the whispers of nature, the patina of time, and the subtlety of emotions. My artworks are an interplay between the raw and the refined. They are surprisingly light, yet grounded, infused with depth and narrative.
