Biography

David was born in South Bank, Middlesbrough. He has been involved in art all his life, since he won the Children’s Painting Prize in 1958. He paints landscapes and seascapes on the Isle of Wight and abroad. He has won many prestigious prizes for his paintings and his work is held in several important collections. He currently shows his work at the Orchid House Gallery, Isle of Wight and Bankside Gallery, the home of the Royal Watercolour Society, London.

‘All my work is concerned with landscape and seascape. I am fascinated by marks: the painters and those that humans make when they work the land. The spirits of artists and land workers past and present shape my view. I work on a large and small scale in oils, tempera and watercolour. I use tradition as my touchstone and modernism as my flight.’