Wildlife in Watercolour

David Barlow moved from Essex via Milton Keynes to Torquay 25 years ago and is a self-taught painter/artist specialising in watercolour studies of elephants and apes and most recently, commission based portraits of horses and dogs.

He first came to recognition when exhibiting in wildlife artist Roy Chaffin’s ‘Paint A Wildlife Subject’ between 2002 / 2004. He later gained a solo exhibition at Torbay Hospital’s gallery in 2004 featuring various wildlife subjects along with local scenes and original cartoon characters, selling over half his works to help raise funds for the hospital.

David has also exhibited regularly at Paignton Zoo’s annual ‘Wildart’ exhibition and his current ambition is to have a painting successfully accepted and exhibited at his long-time hero, David Shepherd’s annual Wildlife Artist of the Year competition.

Now living in Kingskerswell, he splits his time between working in a busy local production office and painting wildlife / pet portraits. As well as wildlife, he has also painted pictures of ancient historic sites such as the Pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx. Local places of interest have also become subjects and he has a watercolour of the Linny Public House, Coffinswell, hanging in the main bar and recently he completed a commission of an old thatched cottage in nearby North Whilborough.

David's exhibition starts on Friday 12 June (do come along between 6pm and 8:30pm to meet him) and runs for four weeks.

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