David says

My main medium is pastel and I have shown intermittently with the Pastel Society in the Mall Galleries in London since 1983. I have had work accepted at the Royal Academy and I am a regular contributor to the Leeds Art Fair and Holmfirth Art Week.

This has been a busy year (2007) starting with my participation in a highly successful group show at the Broughton Gallery near Peebles in the Scottish Borders in April. I have work in Galleries in London, Surrey and Sussex as well as the Chantry Gallery in Ripley, Kentmere House, York and art Olicana, Ilkley. I also exhibit at the Art exhibition in Ripon Cathederal every September.

I am fascinated by the Palaeolithic cave painters, medieval stained glass workers as well as the modern masters like Roualt, Giacometti, Marc and Macke. Closer to home, I love the painterly neo-classicism of John Piper and the earthy expressiveness of Joan Eardley. Best of British, in my opinion, and my master is the vastly underestimated David Bomberg.

Colour for me, like architecture for Ruskin, is frozen music. I am inspired by light and its shadow, colour, and what Bomberg describes as ‘the spirit in the mass’. I like to ‘carve with light’ which is another reason for enjoying, like my Cro-Magnon ancestors, the chalk stick rather than the flaccid brush and this suits all the more my shear physical joy in making pure pigment marks on a textured surface.

A recent trip to Sussex and Kent for the second time has been the inspiration for some of the works on exhibition, showing a different slant of light to my Yorkshire canal, architectural and coastal impressions.

I studied at Bradford, Sunderland and Brighton Colleges of Art between 1963 and 1970 and have been a professional artist since 1990."