David Atkins

David Atkins was born in Greenwich, London in 1964.  He studied painting at St Martins School of Art, London  and at Winchester School of Art, gaining a 1st Class Honours Degree in painting.

He exhibits regularly throughout the UK and has been awarded numerous prizes including the Horan Prize for Painting at the NEAC Exhibition in London, the Facade International Prize for Painting at the Discerning Eye exhibition and the Baltic Exchange Prize 2018 for Painting at the RMSA Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.  These are new works from a recent visit to Italy.

"David Atkins has established himself as an evocative painter of landscapes and, particularly, the urban scene.  His is a broad brush, the seep and colour of it bold and clear, and he brings to the city the eye for transitory light and temperature and atmosphere that is more usually applied to rural landscape.  His is the sometimes sceptical eye of the honest observer, seeing London or Dublin, New York or Barcelona, as we have all experienced them"

Brian Sewell (1931-2015) Art Critic