This guy…

In his latest series of works, Natural Pattern Seekers, Dan Lovelace constructs layered mixed media works through repeated cycles of drawing, taping, painting, and removing. The resulting abstract forms—textured, tonal, and quietly expressive—invite contemplation and ‘deeper looking’ rather than shouting for attention.

Lovelace’s background as a psychotherapist informs his exploration of emotional multiplicity and internal states, both individual and collective. His work holds the tension between opposing metaphorical states of being, light and dark, order and chaos, providing contextual depth, yet remaining in chronological flux.

Bright color palettes contrast with deeper undercurrents—questioning freedom, identity, and our relationship to difference and self-expression.

These pieces are not about resolution or perfection and embrace chance and accident, memory and ‘forgetting’ to rally against the ‘polished’ or other qualities arbitrarily culturally mandated as aspirational. 

They make space to celebrate contradiction and complexity, continuity and presence, but also offer an invitation to the viewer to build their own relationship with the work away from didactic narratives.

Born 1980

MA Winchester School Of Art 2006

Lives and works UK

Selected shows:

2025 ‘The Dark Side’ Boomer Gallery, London

2012 ‘At Play’ Ovada Gallery, Oxford

2010 ‘Wee American’ at The Brewery Music Studios, Los Angeles

2009 Tupajumi International group show ‘MIAMI’ at the Hudson Museum, Amsterdam

2007 ‘Emerging Artists’, Alexandra’s Gallery, Los Angeles

2007 ‘Raid Projects’ residency show with Per Huttner and Emily Counts, Los Angeles