O-A: What is the Celebrity Colour Challenge? David Carr: It began as a small experiment. Usually I work with a large range of paints and my pictures are very bright and colourful. I wanted to try and create a piece using a very limited pallet, and came up with the idea of asking someone else […]
. David Carr art statement I like to create pictures where the viewer can lose themselves in an imagined world amongst colourful patterns, shapes and lines. My pictures are about feelings and emotion but not about me. My latest work is a series of paintings where I have left the choice of colour for other […]
O-A: Who or what inspired you artistically; a person, artist, event, experience David Carr: In the mid 70s I was flying to Los Angeles with my family, I must have been seven or eight years old at the time. As my father was a pilot for British Airways, we got upgraded to first class and […]
David Carr (born 3rd June 1968) is an English born abstract painter living and working in France. He is most notable for his creation of the “The Celebrity Colour Challenge” which began in 2019. Celebrities from stage and screen, artists and musicians are asked to choose three colours from the paints in his studio and […]
