DAVID K TAYLOR  A.W.I. F.V.A.S  

David has been recognized and revered internationally for his painting, teaching and his services to the Arts. David’s painting career expands over many years of studying the art of watercolour painting and he has been involved in teaching his great love of this medium to painters and students both in Australia and overseas since the late sixties.

His numerous achievements include well over 100 awards for his watercolours, including the Herald Sun Best of Show; Gold Medal Award at the Camberwell Rotary Exhibition 2002 and 2011, won the Silver medal in 1976 and 2007. He won the prestigious Victorian Artists Society Artist of the Year Award in 1976, 1980, and again in 1989, and in the same year he received the Distinguished Leadership Award for outstanding services to Watercolour and teaching from the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership and a certificate of merit for distinguished service to the community. His works are represented in numerous public and private collections Worldwide.

David’s work is regularly exhibited in Australia, China, the United States, in England, the Channel Islands and Stockholm. He has held regular one-man exhibitions of his work since 1975. In each Exhibition he expresses his love of working freely on location and his love of spontaneity, shape, light and colour. There have been many varying influences on his painting journey and aspires to the impressionists Monet, Turner, and the expressive John Singer Sergeant, also to include Winslow Homer, Brabazon Brabazon and Whistler to name a few.