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.

Since 2009 David started introducing traditional elements of painting - calligraphic brushmarks representing flowers - into his ‘unpainted paintings’. This combination results in vivid compositions of arresting beauty.

2008

• Works selected for the Spiritual Care Centre, Dzogchen Beara
  

2007

• Solo Exhibition - Prieuré, St. Michel de Grandmont

• shortlisted for the Celeste Art Prize, London: top 40 in on-line vote.
• Solo Exhibition - Spitz Gallery, Commercial St., London E1
• group show Stark Gallery, Canterbury CT1 2QB, UK
• group show A Breath of Fresh Air, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK

2006

• Solo Exhibition - Espace Clamery, Octon, France
• Solo Exhibition - Tourist Office, Lodève, France
• Solo Exhibition - Galerie Soleil Bleu, Grande Rue, Lodève, France

• 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

David Rycroft’s paintings evoke the surrounding natural beauty of the Hérault.

• Solo Exhibition - Galerie Soleil Bleu, Grande Rue, Lodève, France
• Solo Exhibition - Spitz Gallery, Commercial St., London E1
  

1995 Singer & Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, The Mall Galleries, London


Sunday Times
Watercolour Competition


1994 Solo Exhibition - Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral, Suffolk

1993 Spectator Art Award, Christie's, London

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Spectator Art Award


1992 Laing Landscape Competition, The Mall Galleries, London


Laing Landscape Competition


1990 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London


BP Portrait Award



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

2002-05 Distance-learning MA in Buddhist Philosophy (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