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David Folley
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David Folley, (born 1960 in Plymouth) is an English painter based in Plymouth, Devon, UK. His private studio is located in the north of the city and the public face is his gallery and studio "Discover Folley", situated in Plymouth's historic Barbican. His style of painting has been influenced by Paul Cézanne, Stanhope Forbes of the Newlyn School, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, and Roger Somville, a Belgium contemporary painter. Folley's interests include "Political theory and the interactions between individual and society", colour deficiency and colour perception. In 2008 Folley was artist-in-residence for a play about the painter Robert Lenkiewicz. In 2009 he produced 15 paintings that captured the "rhythms and shapes" of morris dancing. In 2011 the Western Morning News reported that Folley was working on a painting of the Penlee lifeboat disaster which included research supported by the Scottish Maritime Museum. He has also painted a near life size Arabian Horse called Saffron who is stabled at Combe Farm. Folley's works include: * 2012 Frankel: The Frighteningly Phenomenal Frankel, 7DC009 * 2012 Combe Farm Arabian: Saffron, 7DC00B * 2012 Frankel: The Phenomenal Frankel, 7DC008 * 2012 Frankel: The Thunder of Hooves, 7DC003 * 2008 Morris One, depicting The Plymouth Morris Men dancing the 'Sun Up' upon Plymouth Hoe, on 1 May 2008 * 2008 Jojo i, The 9 Cast Members * 2008 Jojo ii, Painter in Residence, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth * 1997 "Mad bad and dangerous to eat" which depicts a blue cow and a smog engulfed rainforest, exhibited as a protest outside a McDonald's restaurant * 1997 "Blood Brothers" a tribute to Willy Russell, named after the musical which is about separated twins * 2008 Painter-in-Residence for Plymouth Morris Men<ref name="MORRIS"/> Exhibitions * 1994 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London * 1995 Hannover Gallery, Liverpool<ref name="Telford A" /> * 1995 The Pastel Society, London * 1995 The Loggia Gallery, London * 1995 Plymouth Arts Centre * 1995 S.T.E.R.T.S. Open * 1996 Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth Art College * 2000 Es-SCAPES, McNeill Masters Art Gallery, Radlett * 2005 Dublin International Art Fair * 2007 Edinburgh International Art Fair * 2008 Barbican Theatre, Plymouth<ref name="red-squirrel" /> * 2008 Joy of Paint, at Les Jardins de Bagatelle, Plymouth<ref name="JoJo A" /> * 2008/9 The Wharf, Tavistock, Devon<ref name"red-squirrel" /><ref name"beehive-1" /> Commissions * 2004 EndomolUK, London * 1996 Trinity College, Cambridge * 1998 Trinity College, Cambridge 
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