‘Jerwood Contemporary Painters’, Jerwood Space, London and tour (2009). 3rd from right: Monarch (For EMS) (2007)
Some of the figurative work has a beautifully delicate tonal simplicity, a paring back to the essentials – look at David Webb’s representation of a Monarch butterfly, what he has made of the form, and how he has contextualized it within its painterly environment. It’s all very simple, beautifully judged and poised – just like a fecklessly evanescent butterfly, in fact.