873 McQuail Rd
Smyrna, DE 19977

302-632-8021
dave@davidwadechambers.com
www.DavidWadeChambers.com

Studio Hours

By Appointment Only

Artist Statement

During the late 1980’s, I studied painting at the University of Delaware where I developed a neo-expressionist style. After graduating, I put down my brush and worked for ten years as a graphic artist, then ten years as a photojournalist at the Delaware State News. My dream during those years was to return to painting and I’m pleased to say that starting in January 2020, I’ve done just that.

These days I am completely focused on developing as a neo-expressionist painter and creating an extensive oeuvre of dynamic, energetic pieces. As I complete a painting, I aspire to not to paint my subject but the effect it produces. My paintings exist somewhere in between the imaginary and the real, in a space where the visible meets the invisible. My photographs captured the world we all can see, my paintings capture the world we can’t.

My work is characterized by intense subjectivity, warm colors, heavy impasto & rough handling of materials and I’m inspired by the great post-impressionists Cezanne and van Gogh, the fauvist Matisse, the abstract expressionist genius deKooning and the master Picasso - I aspire to create pieces using their same techniques of color, form and vibrant energy.