Oxmarket are excited to welcome back Daniel Freaker to the Wilson Gallery for a 2 week exhibition. Freaker taught art and design for many years at Chichester College and has since developed a large following on Instagram and exhibits internationally with his instantly recognisable palette and bold imagery. Freaker graduated from the Slade School of Art in 2000 and lives and works in Portsmouth.

Freaker’s work is full of opposites, bright and dark, fluid and firm, movement and stasis, real and abstract. He uses many techniques on the canvas and this creates a tension and a balance between abstract and figurative work.

The feeling this creates is almost cinematic in the sense of composition and aliveness. Like light flickering through film and stories told through a lens, the work feels like a story we may have all experienced.

What makes the work stand out is the sense of familiarity within the scenes, where the initial image tells us it’s a normal scene, yet the techniques and palette are so other worldly.