Lublinski
Exhibition reviews
Tribune July 16 1971, Artists at the TUC July 1971, Margaret Richards
The current show is a particularly good mixed exhibition of work by 14 painters, sculptors, poets and musicians, all friends of David Lublinski who organised the show with his wife Margot.[...] Their paintings and sculptures are on view from 11 am to 7 pm Mondays to Fridays and during the lunch hour and in the evenings they play tape recordings of music and poetry by five of their number. It is a very much a corporate event, though the artists are not a group in the usual sense of working in a common style […] these artists of the main-stream between trad and mod each have something direct and underivative to communicate. The integrity is unmistakable; nothing in the show is either slick or dull and the quality of the best pieces is high- higher than some of the work that sells in Cork Street. David Lublinski’s oil paintings, some figurative, some abstract, concentrate on surface texture. They are grainy, multicoloured, like sand under a magnifying glass even when the subject is people in a donkey or someone playing a piano by firelight. Figuration is vague though not ambiguous and design counts strongly in his later work as in "Sunlight" where a grey silhouette of a Whistlerish woman looks like a shadow thrown at the dusty haze of yellow shapes beyond. He is now turning to sculpture and there is a classically simple bust of his young daughter, which I liked for its childish solemnity and formalised stripes of tidy hair.
Leicester Mercury, 16 March 1972
David Lublinski is exhibiting thirty-five pictures, painted between 1961 and 1971, at Vaughan College St Nicholas Circle Leicester until 12 April. It is a very interesting and worthwhile show, with works showing distinct developments in their chronological order. Lublinski is an artist with an exciting vision who has a special regard for colour, texture and design.
The Guardian, Monday April 3 1972, Myfanwy Kitchen
David Lublinski is exhibiting at Vaughan College in Leicester. He appears to look at a more relaxed section of society. Most of his work is figurative, though with his sense of design, his interest in related colours and sharper tones, his sporadic bits of hard drawing, it makes much of his work semi-abstract. His interest in figures is visual rather than emotional. Although he paints with thin layer of paint after thin layer, the whole thing appears quite spontaneous.
Arts Review, 8 April 1972, Myfanwy Kitchen
David Lublinski’s paintings are certainly worth a long look. His strong sense of design in composition and his method of drawing make the transition between abstract and figurative art easy. His subject matter is easy too - what he sees, who he’s with, what he does. The surface of his paintings show the artist's problems, the tension of hard work. Layer on layer of thin paint show many alterations as the paintings develop. One piece of drawing might be brought out delicately, a whole area might be subdued to simplify and strengthen the composition. He appears to leave working on his paintings at the precise moment when everything is perfectly related and the whole development has a look of spontaneous creation.
Herald Express, 14 June 1977
After exhibiting his work elsewhere in this country and abroad Tedburn St Mary artist David Lublinski had his first one-man exhibition in the West Country opened at the Dartmoor Craft Centre Buckfastleigh by Buckfastleigh’s Mayor Mr Sydney Goffin. Mr Goffin said he never ceased to be amazed by the perception of artists producing something that stood the test of time.
Photographs taken at the opening ceremony and showing Sir Caspar John (son of the famous artist Augustus John) with Mr Goffin and David appeared in the Herald Express and in The Totnes Times on 15 June 1977.
Totnes Times, June 15 1977
An artist specialising in paintings of the human form engaged in musical or sporting activity has a new exhibition at the Dartmoor Craft Centre, Buckfastleigh. David Lublinski (centre) from Tedburn St Mary has a show until July 1 which was opened o Saturday by the Mayor of Buckfastleigh (left) Cllr Sidney Goffin and Sir Caspar John, son of artist Augustus John who lives nearby at Dean Coombe. Mr Lublinski a physics graduate who is perhaps better known abroad has had exhibitions in London, the provinces and Germany. This is his first one-man show in the West Country although he has lived near Crediton with his family for 14 years.
Express and Echo, Wednesday April 7 1982: Place for other art
So you thought the Northcott Theatre Exeter was for performing arts only. Well, do not tell Mr David Lublinski of Tedburn St Mary that - particularly this week. The reason is Mr Lublinski has 10 years of his work on the walls of the theatre. Born in Surrey of Polish and Huguenot descent, Mr Lublinski has lived in Devon for nearly 20 years. Married with four children he teaches art for adults at Queen Elizabeth’s Community College, Crediton. He has given exhibitions of his work throughout Britain and Germany. This latest show, involving 22 paintings and 12 drawing, will run until April 24.
North Devon Journal Herald, 18 November 1982: David Lublinski Exhibition North Devon College.
The most pleasing feature of his work is that it has an openness and honesty about it, qualities which seem to depend particularly on his treatment of space and light.
The Western Morning News, Saturday 31st August 1988: Artistic Co-op
At the launch of artist David Lublinski’s latest exhibition tomorrow at Dewsmoor Art, near Crediton, he will be joined by his wife and family who will give a poetry reading and music recital. Mrs Margot Lublinski the poet; children Rachel, Rebecca and Christoffer are the musicians.
Crediton Country Courier, September 26 1994: Paintings by David Lublinski
David Lublinski is of Polish and Huguenot descent. Some of his ancestors were Devonians who emigrated from Exeter to London by sailing boat a few years before the railway reached our county. In 1963 David made the return journey to the West Country by road and has remained in Devon ever since. His youngest two children were born here: all four of his children went to the Hayward School and QECC, before attending universities. David teaches painting and drawing to adults at St David's Hill Community Centre Exeter also (helped by his wife) he runs an Art Club in the village of Tedburn St Mary. Since 1960 David Lublinski has had work in numerous mixed exhibitions in this country and abroad (including the Royal Academy Summer 1964) and was awarded first prize in the Exeter and Devon Arts Centre competition 1992). One-man shows include Vaughan College, Leicester, 1972 (which was written-up in the Arts Review and The Guardian): All-Hallows-by-the-Tower, London, 1983: and several; Devonshire venues (such as Dewsmoor Art and the Northcott Theatre) over the past 25 years or so. Paintings and drawings by David Lublinski are in private collections world-wide, also in the permanent collections of Vaughan College, Crediton Parish Church and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. New paintings by David will be on show at Crediton Library from October 3 to October 31.
Express and Echo, Friday 3 Oct 1994: Library shows artist's work (picture Derek Meredith)
Art lovers were today urged to take a peek at an exhibition which will only be on show in Crediton until the end of the end of the month. Local artist David Lublinski is displaying his work of 29 pictures at the town's library. Mr Lublinski teaches art to two classes, one in Exeter ad the other in Tedburn St Mary. And he said a lot of his students were retired. He said "They come along with fear and trepidation. They are absolutely terrified because they had been told when they were young they were no good - which is ridiculous. Sometimes they produce some absolutely brilliant work." Mr Lublinski works mainly from photographs taken by him or his daughter. And he added he could spend several years working on a painting. "Obviously I am not working on them all the time" he said. All the paintings in the exhibition are for sale. For more information contact Mr Lublinski on 0647 (61204).
Express and Echo October 1995 (picture Derek Meredith)
People might find themselves distracted from the books when they visit Crediton's library. And it will be because of an exhibition by local artist David Lublinski. This one man show runs in the library in Belle Parade until October 31 featuring the work of the Tedburn St Mary artist. The library is open [...] Mr Lublinski held a well-received exhibition at the library last year. He also has works in private collections in at least 15 countries across the world.
Western Morning News Feb 8 1997 Powerful yet sensitive work
David Lublinski is the youngest grandson of J. Allen Shuffrey (1859-1939) a water colourist of Huguenot descent known as The Oxford Painter. Though initially working at Decca Radar, David returned to Kingston College of Art and in 1963 settled with his family in Devon. If contemporary artists work tends to be too abstract, here is an artist of the old school whose execution and attention to detail is startling. His strong sense of design makes the transition between abstract and figurative art imperceptibly easy. By using layers of thin paint, one upon the other, one area of the impression will be brought towards the eye while another possibly larger and more dominant, will melt back, to combine and unite many shapes into one alliance. His works are both powerful yet sensitive and 70 paintings dating from 1960-1996 by David Lublinski BA Oxon FRSA are on show at Reed Hall, Streatham Drive University of Exeter from February 17 - March 14 from Monday to Friday 9-5 pm. An exhibition not to be missed.
Muenchner Merkur July 16 2001 Manfred Stanka (translated from the German).
The return of the figurative in European and American paintings moves slowly. One of the trend-setters is David Lublinski. The Englishman now in his sixties takes an unorthodox view of ordinary people. Three old ladies talkative and frail, huddle in front of a wall covered with graffiti. They hide their worn-out bodies in shapeless fur garments. In "Brighton Beach Brooklyn", Lublinski holds their snapshot for eternity. Lublinski's paintings radiate an irresistible calmness. The oil paintings on board breathe a sleepy sensuality and speak of an indestructible harmony between people and their world.
Sueddeutsche Zeitung July 2001 Ingrid ZImmermann (translated from the German)
David Lublinski, the highly respected painter well-known beyond his native England, likes to look at people- a child with a puzzle, a youngster who has squeezed himself into a supermarket trolley, four people sitting on a bench in the park. He sees with his heart and everything seems to harmonise- the types, the environment. His skill with light and figures is masterly. He treats the surface of his paintings with a special scratch technique in order to create minute openings like gaps in the clouds, creating a brightness which looks beyond the visible.
Crediton Courier 20th March 2009 Exhibition tugs at the heartstrings. Jane Partridge
David Lublinski's art sends me into raptures. In First Dolls pram III, a toddler, perfectly dressed in a hand-knitted cardigan, check dress and red buckled shoes protectively pulls up the hood of a 1950's style pram. A case of maternal instinct kicking in early!. His portrait of Christine - in profile - fascinates. This woman, with her close cropped blond hair and exquisite drop earring, shines with an inner strength. Ride a roller coaster of emotions when viewing this exhibition.