”Sensual and elegant, Cottingham’s works indeed reveal the world – the everyday passage of time, the infallible cycle of days and nights – as a vision of the sublime in nature and in the creative spirit. Abstract paintings with the rich hues of daybreaks and sunsets, lunar patterns and luminous reflections, Cottingham’s works are composed as strata of color, like the sedimentation of light or atmospheric landscapes. Smoldering reds, iridescent blues, long shadows and bands of shimmering light stripe the intricate skies of Cottingham’s canvases”. - Exhibition Review of Abstract Paintings: New York
“Lost in an exhilarating choreography, David Cottingham’s dancers celebrate the joy of movement and rhythm, bending, swinging and turning their bodies skilfully, striking energetic and powerful poses, twirling in light and elegant moves. The effortless and smooth flow of gestures requires utter body control, a focussed concentration of force; practise and regular workout are preconditions to create an illusion of weightless floating in the air, leaving the ground and escaping gravity.
Sometimes in flaming compositions worked up in successive layers, reflecting a whole sequence of progressing moves, sometimes in reduced studies of a single pose, the shape accentuated by colour: David Cottingham’s dancers are filling the canvas, conquering it by their continuous rhythmical steps and gestures, taking their places in space and time”. - Dr Barbara Goebels-Cattaneo Review from Rome Exhibition
