06/06/2026
Thank you David, for a wonderful opening and for being so generous with your time and insights throughout the evening. Your 40 beautiful new paintings bring light, color, and excitement to the gallery, and the exhibition continues through July 5.
David Dunlop’s “Shimmer Across the Water,” oil, 32x 32 inches, is alive with shimmering light and luminous color. Layers of translucent colors, interacting with the reflective gold surface beneath, and expressive, painterly brushwork create a remarkable sense of depth, light, and vibration. Much as we see through water while simultaneously perceiving reflections on its surface, we experience both the depth created by the translucent layers interacting with the reflective gold surface and the shimmer of reflected light at the same time. The varied hues of the richly colored shells in deep blues, soft greens, warm golds and pale violets, along with subtle shifts in color and value, enhance the illusion of depth and translucence. The entire painting shimmers with shifting light and color creating a remarkable sense of life and movement.
