Yasmin David: The Nature of Light

Solo exhibition by post-war British landscape painter Yasmin David. About Yasmin David lived and worked in South Devon for over fifty years. Her work explores the particular light and landscape near her home on the edge of Dartmoor. One of the few women working in landscape during the post-war period, David produced paintings which are both intimate and dramatic, emotional and turbulent, capturing the molten qualities of sky and land. They directly reference the unique relationship between the painter and the land. Yasmin David (1939-2009) was the daughter of Lorna Wishart (neé Garman) the youngest of the beautiful and unconventional Garman sisters, and muse to both Laurie Lee and Lucian Freud. Yasmin was born during Lorna’s affair with Lee. She was named Yasmin as the Y can be seen as two conjoined L’s. She only found out the identity of her biological father at the age of 19. Read more Toggle Painting