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David Atkins
In common with all Albemarle artists, David Atkins is an honest painter, passionate about his work, continuously appraising his painterly skills and pushing his own boundaries in search of new ideas and modes of expression.
In recent years he has shifted his focus from the English landscape, in particular Dorset where he lives, to the urban environment of great cities such as London and New York.
This most recent body of work explores arguably the most beautiful city in the world so favoured for centuries by the many artists drawn to its unique atmospheric qualities and intoxicating array of colours.
‘David Atkins has established himself as an evocative painter of landscapes and, particularly, of the urban scene. His is a broad brush, the sweep and colour of it bold and clear, and he brings to the city the eye for transitory light and temperature and atmosphere that is more usually applied to rural landscape. With him we explore cities, not always in the bright clear Kodak light of the Canaletto imitator, but at dawn and sunset and often in the damp truth of autumn and the tenebrous contrasts of the street at night; his is the sometimes sceptical eye of the honest observer, seeing the Venice that is La Serenissima, as we have all experienced her.’
Brian SewellArt Critic
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cv / exhibition history / awards
1964
Born, Greenwich, London
Education
1982-1983
St Martins School of Art, London. Foundation Course
1983-1986
Winchester School of Art BA Fine Art
First Class Honors Degree, Painting
1993-1995
PGCE Post Compulsory Education
Selected Exhibitions
2009
Sarah Wiseman Gallery. Oxford
Fairfax Gallery. Norfolk
Campden Gallery. Gloustershire
2008
Albemarle Gallery. London
2007
Albemarle Gallery. London. Siena Paintings
Fairfax Gallery Burnham Market
Albany Gallery Cardiff
Courcoux and Courcoux, Hampshire
2006
Albemarle Gallery. London. London Paintings
Stables Gallery Northern Ireland
Fairfax Gallery Burnham Market
2005
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
Courcoux and Courcoux
Study Gallery Poole
Beaux Arts Bath Summer Exhibition
Fairfax Gallery. Tunbridge Wells and Burnham Market
Albany Gallery Cardiff
2004
‘Thomas Hardy’s Country’ Albemarle Gallery, London. Solo Exhibition
2003
Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells. Solo Exhibition
Fairfax Gallery, Burnham Market. Solo Exhibition
2002
Albemarle Gallery, London. Solo Exhibition
Albany Gallery, Cardiff. Four Man Exhibition
Alresford Gallery, Winchester. Three Man Exhibition
Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
2001
Albemarle Gallery, London
The White Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Brighton
Discerning Eye, London
ROI Exhibition London
Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
Alresford Gallery, Winchester 1992 – 2001
2000
The Albany Gallery, Cardiff
Discerning Eye, London (Prize Winner)
Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells 1997-2001
1998
Landmark. A Survey of British Landscape Painting, Bournemouth University
1997
Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
1996
The Medici Gallery, London
The Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition, London
1995
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
1994
ART94, London
Watermans Fine Art, London
1993
RMSA Exhibition, London
Laing Landscape Exhibition, London, 1992 2001
1991
Tall House Gallery, Solo Exhibition, London
Public Collections
2006
Hampshire County Council Collection
1992
Guild hall, Kingston, London
1986
Creasey Collection, Salisbury
Awards
2003
The Horan Prize for Painting. Awarded at NEAC Exhibition, London
2001
The Laing Landscape Award
2000
The Façade International Prize for Painting at The Discerning Eye
The Chichester Open (Prize Winner)
1999
Bideford Open. Prize Winner.
1993
Atlantis Young Artist Award. 1st Prize.
1986
The Bateson Mason Award for Drawing.
Residencies
1989
Artist in Residence, North Kingston Centre, Kingston.
Commissions
1986
Four Murals for the GLC at Eltham Park Swimming Pool 1982.
Publications
2010
Artists & Illustrators Magazine. May issue
2006
Hampshire County Council Collection Catalogue
2002
Laing PLC Calendar
1998
BBC film for Beatrice Royal Art Gallery
Artists & Illustrators Magazine. October issue
Testimonial
1991
Sir Hugh Casson
