David Hosie is a Scottish painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Born in Glasgow in 1962, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1980 to 1985, specializing in drawing and painting. He won the Richard Ford Award, the George Jackson Hutchinson Award and the Andrew Grant Major Award. After graduation he became a lecturer there.
Hosie has exhibited in multiple solo and group shows globally, holding his first solo show at the RAAB Gallery, London and Berlin in 1987. His work is in many corporate and national collections.
Hosie's artistic style is characterized by a blend of technique and emotion. His figure paintings often evoke an unsettling quality, capturing the viewer’s attention with their intensity. The interplay of light and shadow in his work adds depth and drama, while his use of color creates a visceral impact. Hosie’s exploration of the human form and its psychological nuances contributes to his distinctive presence in the contemporary art scene.
In the 1987 Raab Gallery catalogue Tony White & Tam Crooks wrote: "His expressed influences include Bosch, Breughel, painters of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, especially Bellini and Massaccio, and the surrealist and metaphysical painters of the twentieth century.
His work portrays a concern for the beautifully painted form, which ironically depicts the predicaments peculiar to the late twentieth century.
-- We are confronted with destruction, guilt, conscience and perhaps a frail optimism --
The stark introspective imagery of Hosie's work is challenging and ominous, yet the children in »The Red Plane«, »Beauty and the Beast« and »Children's Games« are arguably symbols of hope, optimism and regeneration. Nevertheless, beneath the dominant stillness of his imagery beat some harsh and uncompromising forces, which emphase the fragility of optimism."