DAVID TAYLOR DAVID K TAYLOR A.W.I. F.V.A.
S David is recognized internationally for his
painting and teaching and his services to the Arts.
Born in Melbourne Australia in 1941, David’s
early career began in etching and a 6-year
apprenticeship at the North Melbourne Printing
School of Graphic Arts; colour etching assisted in
his future career as an artist painter. Many hand
skills were learned such as hand engraving, lino
and woodcutting, also etching with zinc, copper and
magnesium and later etching on film in
lithography. David’s painting career expands many
years of studying the art of watercolour painting
and he has been involved in teaching his great love
of this medium to painters both in Australia and
overseas since the late sixties. He is involved in
regularly tutoring for the Australian and
International Artist magazine.
His numerous achievements include over 100
awards in watercolour, including the Herald Sun
Best Of Show Gold Medal Award at the
Camberwell Rotary Exhibition 2002 and a silver
medal in 1976. In 2007 Silver Award. 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, in
several 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.
Subjects that convey atmosphere, mood and
feeling inspire David. The book, Solving The
Mystery of Watercolor, features David Taylor’s
work and was written by Ron Ranson. His work is
also on film and DVD with APV films
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AWARDS:
2011 Kenneth Jack Memorial Award
2011 Kenneth Jack Popular Choice
Award
2011 Winner Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary
Art Show Gold Award Best of Show High and Dry
St Aubins U.K.
August 2010 Lushan, China Exhibition 2
Paintings purchased for the National collection in
China and National lecture to 5,000 Chinese
students in Lushan China (with a little singing
also).
May 2010 International Judge as the
Australian Representative in Shanghai as part of a
judging panel From 5 Countries for a special
International watercolour. His work was selected
for the National Collection in China
2009 Kenneth Jack Memorial Award
Medal
May 2009 Exhibition in Melbourne with
Maxwell Wilks
April 2008 DVD, Looking For the Light,
released
2007 The Silver Award Camberwell Art
Exhibition
2006 Won the Wilbow Corporation Prize Best
painting At the Camberwell Art Exhibition
Australia.
October 2005 Special Exhibition in Jersey
(Channel Islands)
Jan 2005 Selected as the Principal Artist in
Residence - University of Southern Queensland
Australia. He became the first Australian recipient
for this position at their Annual School for the
Arts, in 37 years. It is of the highest honor in the
School, which caters for classes in Painting,
Sculpture, Etching, Leadlighting, Ceramics,
Woodwork, Pottery and Calligraphy, Creative
Writing, and Hand made Jewelry. Some 600
Students will attend at the School, David will
Participate and give a special talk on his life as a
Painter
Represented
Australian Watercolour Institute
75th Anniversary 1923-1998
Australian Watercolour Painters 1780 – 1980 Jean
Campbell
Australian Impressionist and Realist Artists
Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand
Max Germaine
Who’s Who in Australia and the Far East first
edition 1989
Dictionary of International Biography1990-91
Twenty-first Edition.
The International Directory Distinguished
Leadership Second Edition.
Solving the Mystery of Watercolour David Taylor
Ron Ranson
A P V Films Solving The Mystery Of Watercolour
DVD and Video
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