David Atkins

David Atkins is a renowned British landscape artist born in Greenwich, London, in 1964. David studied painting at St Martins School of Art in London and at Winchester School of Art, graduating with a First-Class Honours degree in Painting.

After completing his studies, David Atkins returned to London, where he taught part-time while continuing to develop his painting practice. David has exhibited regularly across the UK and began showing in London in 1999, holding his first solo exhibition there in 2002.

Throughout his career, David Atkins has received several prestigious awards, including the Horan Prize for Painting at the NEAC Exhibition in London, the Façade International Prize for Painting at the Discerning Eye Exhibition in London, and the Baltic Exchange Prize for Painting at the 2018 RMSA Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London

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David Atkins currently lives and works in Dorset, UK.

‘David Atkins has established himself as an evocative painter of landscapes and, particularly, of the urban scene. His is a broad brush, the sweep 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. With him we explore cities, not always in the bright clear Kodak light of the Canaletto imitator, but at dawn and sunset and often in the damp truth of autumn and the tenebrous contrasts of the street at night; his is the sometimes sceptical eye of the honest observer, seeing London and Dublin, New York and Barcelona, as we have all experienced them’.

Brian Sewell (1931-2015), Art Critic