David Cobley RP NEAC
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David uses oil on canvas, charcoal, pastel, watercolour, pencil, pen and ink.
Bio
David has been drawing and painting since early childhood. He trained at Northampton and Liverpool Schools of Art before spending almost 10 years studying and working in Japan.
In 1989 he was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1997, serving as its Honorary Secretary for four years. His portrait of Ken Dodd OBE was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in 2005, and in 2010 he was commissioned to paint the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Martin Evans for the Gallery’s permanent collection. In 2019 the BBC asked him to paint Sir David Attenborough as a celebration of his life in broadcasting.
He has had solo shows of his work in London and Bath, and works from a studio in Devizes.
1954 Born in Northampton
1971-72 Foundation Course, Northampton College of Art and Design
1997 Elected a Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2001 Elected a Member of the Royal West of England Academy
2003 Elected a Member of the New English Art Club
Memberships
New English Art Club
Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Scholarships, Awards, Prizes
Short-listed, John Player Portrait Award, 1989
John Brandler Prize, 1993
Tom Rice Gallery Award, Dublin, 1999
Public Prize, Royal West of England Academy, 1999
Daler-Rowney Award, Royal West of England Academy, 1999
Andrew Brownsword Prize, 2001
Prosigns and Graphics Prize, 2002
The Holburne Portrait Prize, 2004
Llewellyn Alexander Award, 2004