David Coleman
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Artist Biography
David Coleman worked in the Health Service for 30 years. He has spent
a lifetime trying to squeeze art into the gaps in a busy work life. He has
painted in watercolour and oils as well as creating sketchbooks throughout that
time. Latterly, he has been a student at the Art Academy in London.
"This has been an opportunity to stop, and to think hard about the place of nature based
art and my personal practice. The Academy is full of very talented people, both
students and tutors, and it has been an amazing place to develop my skills".
More recently he has started to develop a concept derived
from the cave art at Lascaux which he visited 30 years ago. In the twentieth century,
figurative art fell out of favour in the art establishment. However, John Busby
RSA and others have revived interest in this genre with the rise of the modern
environmental movement. Prof Dennis Dutton argues that the urge to depict
nature is an "instinct" has been there all along, and in fact can be traced
right back to our Primeval ancestry. This provokes the thought that cave walls
might have been the original naturalists' sketchbooks.
David is a winner of the Prof Sir Arnold Wolfendale
FRS prize for Art in Nature and Science.