Desmond Healey's work is driven by a desire to observe, record and translate lived and felt experience. Inspired by the poetry and life of the city that he encounters everyday, he translates some part of the lives of 'ordinary' people, as they make their way through the vast, endless city that encapsulates them.
His work uses an underlying structure of drawing; form expressed through a sense of mass and weight, conveyed through the handwriting of the artist.
He uses printmaking as a way of stretching his responses - that unknown, often frustrating and sometimes revelatory metamorphosis of the initial idea into something that hopefully lives and breathes and surprises the viewer.
Desmond studied at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, then the Royal College of Art. He has taught for several years, most recently at Hampstead Art College. His work has been exhibited widely, featuring in the Royal Acdemy Summer exhibition multiple times and solo exhibitions in London, France and Spain.