Résumé

David Rycroft is an English painter living in France. Educated in art and art history at Eton College and Edinburgh University, he received his first national art award aged 19. He taught art in London for ten years and now makes a living as a painter.

Since 1994 David has been developing an innovative technique that brings together some key artistic principles—purity, naturalness, vibrancy, spontaneity, chance and precision. The fruition of this exploration is found in his most recent paintings where he combines the dynamic spaciousness of his ‘unpainted pictures’ with fluent brush-marks depicting elements from the natural world.

The adoption of diptych and triptych formats creates an overall sense of structure and rhythm within which the sweeping colour unfolds.

Right Here, Right Now (2008)

oil on card 66 x 46 cm

One of five works selected for the Spiritual Care Centre, Dzogchen Beara, Ireland

Pure Vista (2006)

oil on card 42 x 64 cm

private collection

selected for the Celeste Art Prize, London 2007

2007

• Solo Exhibition - Spitz Gallery, Commercial St., London E1
• Solo Exhibition - Prieuré, St. Michel de Grandmont
• group show Stark Gallery, Canterbury CT1 2QB, UK
• group show A Breath of Fresh Air, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK

2006

• Solo Exhibition - Spitz Gallery, Commercial St., London E1
• group show A Breath of Fresh Air, Byard Art, Cambridge, UKK
• group show "European Art 2006" Maison des Relations Internationales, Montpellier, France

2005

• Solo Exhibition - Halle Dardé, Lodève, France
• Solo Exhibition - Spitz Gallery, Commercial St., London E1
  
  
  
  Yamdrok Lake, Tibet (1995)
  acrylic on paper 30 x 40 cm
  private collection
  Selected for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, The Mall Galleries, London
  
  
  
  
  Morning Still Life (1992)
  oil on board 35 x 20 cm
  private collection
  Selected for the Spectator Art Award, Christie's, London
  
  

Edinburgh Townscape (1992)
oil on board 110 x 90 cm
private collection
Selected for Laing Landscape Competition, The Mall Galleries, London

Tom Chamberlayne-MacDonald (1989)
oil on canvas 85 x 100 cm
private collection
Selected for the BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London


Art Teaching

1997 - 2005 Art Teacher at an inner-city girls' secondary school, London
Set Design - External Exam Moderator - Sixth Form Tutor
1993-94 Artist-in-Residence at Culford School, Suffolk


Education and Studies

2002-05 Distance-learning MA in Buddhist Studies (Distinction), University of Sunderland
1996-97 PGCE in Art and Design, Institute of Education, University of London
1989-93 MA in History of Art (grade 2:1), University of Edinburgh
1983-88 Music scholar, Eton College