David Cobley, Lost Horizon
David Cobley, Among friends
David Cobley, Portrait study of Ken
Dodd
6 October – 17 November 2007
David Cobley lives and works in Bath and is best known as an
accomplished portrait painter who works to commission. For this
exhibition of 50 or so new works he has broadened his usual range
to include still lifes, landscapes and nudes, besides adopting a
more painterly style using a palette of rich colours.
As well as being a Member of the Royal West of England Academy
(RWA), David also belongs to the New English Art Club and the Royal
Society of Portrait Painters. His sitters include HRH The Princess
Royal, and in 2005 his portrait of Ken Dodd was acquired by the
National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection.
He has won many awards including being short-listed for the BP
Portrait Award in 1989. He won both the Public Prize and the
Daler-Rowney Prize at the RWA in 1999 and two years later won the
Andrew Brownsword Prize here at the Victoria Gallery.
He exhibits annually at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
and the New English Art Club, and for several years has exhibited
at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He has had solo exhibitions
at Beaux Arts in Bath, and in 2005 held his first one-man show at
Messum's in London.
You can see more of David Cobley's work at his website, http://www.davidcobley.co.uk/.