David Hepher

David Hepher (born Surrey,^[1] England, 1935)^[2][3] is a British artist,^[2] best known for his paintings of buildings,^[4] landscapes, especially tower blocks, including the Aylesbury Estate:

The Aylesbury Estate is... the remarkable leitmotif of [his] work as a painter… the Aylesbury is to Hepher what the Stour valley was to Constable or the Medway to Turner.^[5]

David Hepher
Born	(1935-01-22) 22 January 1935 (age 90) Surrey, England
Nationality	British
Education	Camberwell School of Art
Occupation	Painter

Early life

David Hepher was born in Surrey. He studied at Camberwell School of Art^[6] and then at Slade School of Art.^[1]

He later became a Senior lecturer in painting at Chelsea School of Art from 1981 to 1990. Since 2001 he became a professor and head of undergraduate painting at Slade School of Fine Art.

He bought a house in Camberwell Grove, England, in 1961 and has lived there ever since.^[7]

Career

His work has been exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery, Flowers Gallery, Mappin Art Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Ikon Gallery and Tate Britain,.^[8]

He is featured in the two parts BBC Four documentary: "Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry", where he was interviewed by Jonathan Meades.^[9]

Collections

Arts Council Collection

Arrangement in Turquoise and Cream 1 1979–1981

Five Working Drawings 1979–81

Study for 'Arrangement in Turquoise and Cream 1981

British Arts Council

Study, 1993

Number, 1972

Bradford Museum and Art Gallery

Windows of No. 19

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen

The Windows of Number 22

Museum of London

Camberwell Flats, (by day), 1983

Camberwell Nocturne, 1984

Tate Gallery

Albany Flats, 1972

Victoria and Albert Museum

Camberwell Flats, 1984

Bibliography

Exhibition Catalogues

• David Hepher: The Windows of the Brandon Estate – An Elegy to Tall Buildings [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 1999] London.
• David Hepher [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 2002] London.
• David Hepher [Catalogue of the exhibition held at Flowers East 2008] London.

Monographs

• Lucie-Smith, E. (1996) David Hepher. Momentum, London.