Versatile and restless, he explores and exploits many mediums and subjects. He has an especial interest in both landscape and life drawing, and the ambiguities of the ground between the two.

He says: "It's exciting to move constantly between mediums. Each presents its own challenges and forces the artist to look at the subject afresh.
I move happily between working in paint on large landscapes, to using pastels for vigorous life drawings and then on to the very particular questions posed by print-making."

An award-winning artist who has exhibited his work widely, his work is in private collections throughout Britain, in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany and as far afield as Hong Kong. In 2005 he was selector for the Brewery Open Exhibition. In partnership with Pam Williamson he has worked on a number of installations including Memory Engine (2004) for the Armitt Museum, Ambleside.

A life-long traveller, he's visited India twice in the last three years, gathering information, images and experiences that feed his imagination. They contrast vividly with the experience of walking Cumbria's hills in all seasons. But in both cases his imagination is fired by the inseparability of man and environment and the sense of deep history that infuses many places.

Forays into theatrical design have led him to work with both the Halle Orchestra (Stockhausen's In Freundshaft and the Hallephant) and Bournemouth Sinfonietta (Babar, The Snowman) and on a number of dance projects.

He is also a free-lance arts management consultant, working most recently with major national companies including Welfare State International and Dance United, and for the Arts Council of England. He is a member of the South Lakeland Strategic Partnership and chairs its Cultural task group. He is currently the Chair of Lanternhouse Internation.

His recent solo exhibtion at the Warehouse Gallery, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (July-September 2007) was very well received. He's now working towards exhibitions in London and Belgium.

Visitor comments include:

"David's work is beautiful...his use of light and colour is stunning." FW
"Spiritual, warm, deep- needs a wider audience." EA
"The Falklands paintings are evocative and real."
"Beautiful colours, giving depth and creating atmosphere." GP
"Beautiful and brooding..."
"The Indian paintings reminded me very much of the Rothko paintings in their own room at the Tate." ARP
"The luminosity of the paintings evokes a presence and the quality of something ancient, if not eternal." AO
"They speak to the heart!" KE/PD