David’s first job after leaving school was in a commercial art studio, although he left after six months to take a job with more pay!

After a career of serial entrepreneurship, which involved designing his own publicity materials, he became interested in watercolours, and for the last twenty years has painted exclusively in this medium.  

A great admirer of the art of Edward Seago, Edward Wesson and John Yardley, he paints in a loose style.

Townscapes and marine subjects are his favourites, but he has been known to paint the occasional landscape.

For the technically minded, David paints mostly in 16” x 12” format on Bockingford 200lb  NOT watercolour paper, using Winsor and Newton Artists watercolour paints, with a limited palette comprising chiefly cobalt blue, French ultramarine, raw umber,Light red, cadmium red, transparent yellow and burnt umber.  He uses sable brushes, mostly numbers 10 and 12, with a number 3 rigger.  

When possible he paints outdoors, maintaining that he produces better finished paintings this way, rather than working from sketches.

For the past two years he has been contributing a regular feature of four paintings a month in The Journal, which is published in East Yorkshire, and another series in the Journal’s sister publication circulating in Lincolnshire.  You can learn more by logging onto thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/thejournal/home  

He has also contributed articles in Leisure Painter, and regularly undertakes demos for Art Groups.