DAVID CUTHBERT
David lives in Winscombe, North Somerset.
He was born in 1951 in Norwich and spent his childhood in a tiny village in Northamptonshire before his parents moved the family to Somerset. He attended Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys before going on to Somerset College of Art, Taunton where he completed a Foundation course.
From 1970 to 1973 he studied Fine Art Painting at the Central School of Art & Design in London and then took a post-graduate teaching course at London University.
For ten years from 1974 he taught at St Martin’s School of Art in London teaching drawing, painting and printmaking. During this period he exhibited at Parkway Focus, Camden Galleries and Burgh House, Hampstead.
In 1981 he moved with his artist wife Ros and their two year old daughter to Winscombe where they run The Art Shed, a small private art school.
In 2000 he and his wife went on an artists’ trek into the Outback in Australia, organised by the artist wife of the British High Commissioner, which resulted in exhibitions at Bankside, London and in Bath.
David is a member of the Bath Society of Artists and exhibits with them annually..
Currently David works in series, mostly in watercolour and/or pen and ink. He has recently begun a new series of paintings on the theme of the garden. The garden is a site for reverie, and a layering of time and places - a kind of palimpsest. .
He has work in private collections in the UK, USA, Australia, Japan, Singapore, France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and Spain.
He has always included art history in his teaching practice and from about fifteen years ago began giving talks and lectures on art at The Art Shed, Winscombe and at residential colleges, at the Bath Royal Scientific & Literary Institute, the Friends of Swindon Museum & Art Gallery and the Friends of Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives at the M-Shed. Since the Covid-19 pandemic he has been running classes and talks online via Zoom.