Subject matter includes landscape, seascape, the human form, horses and buildings. Sizes of paintings vary from small water colours and oils to large canvasses in oil, acrylic or mixed media. Work is produced in the studio from Dave's own sketches and preparatory paintings made on location. 

‘Personal observation and experience of the subject matter is the key to all my work. I am keen to employ other senses such as the sense of touch into my finished work, 
I enjoy this tactile approach, be it imaginary or real, as an aid to understanding and depicting the three dimensional world onto a two dimensional surface.’

Dave organizes and runs his own art holiday sessions in Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay, North Yorkshire. He is also employed by the national ‘special interest’ holiday company HF Holidays, as an art leader and for the last five years has taught a variety of sketching and painting skills to adults at HF Holiday locations in England, Scotland and Wales.

‘I am keen to explore a variety of methods of painting from illustrative to abstract. I produce my work from my own personal experiences, working from sketches and preliminary paintings produced on location. 

I am interested in a tactile approach to painting both in the imaginary tactile touching of a landscape and a tactile method of painting which I produce in acrylics, placing the paint onto the painting surface with my fingers and without the aid of brushes. I am inspired by the environment of North Yorkshire which includes the natural and the present working aspects of the area.’ 

Title: Techari
Medium: Mixed media
Size cm: 100 x 40                  Price: £285
 
 

Title: Capricho Arabe
Medium: Mixed media
Size cm: 100 x 40                  Price: £285
 
 

Title: Savane
Medium: Mixed media
Size cm: 100 x 40                  Price: £285
 
 

Title: Worried Life Blues
Medium: Mixed media
Size cm: 100 x 40                  Price: £265
 
 
 
 
 
 

Title: Evening Light Robin Hood's Bay 
Medium: Water colour
Size cm: 34 x 15            Price: £295
 

 Title: Moon Over Bay 
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size cm: 70 x 50         Price: SOLD

Title: Nude With Devore Scarf
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size cm: 25 x 30                    Price: £185

Title: Black Nab
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size cm: 40 x 40                  Price: SOLD

Title: Ravenscar
Medium: Oil on board
Size cm: 35 x 22                   Price: £175
 

Title: Climbing Gordale Scar
Medium: Oil on board
Size cm: 28 x 42                Price: £265
 

Title: Sandsend to Whitby 
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size cm: 70 x 50            Price: £275

Title: Marine Parade Whitby 
Medium: Water colour
Size cm 30 x 15            Price: £275
 

Title: Boggle Hole Pony Trek 
Medium: Oil on board
Size cm: 28 x 20            Price: £275
 

Title: Robin Hood's Bay to Ravenscar
Medium: Oil on board
Size cm: 43 x 30                Price: SOLD

Title: Rooftops Robin Hood's Bay
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size cm: 44 x 44               Price: SOLD
 

Title: On The Scaurs
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size cm: 40x 40                   Price: £185

Title: Wayfoot Robin Hood's Bay
Medium: Oil on board
Size cm: 36 x 25                   Price: £195

Title: Whitby West Pier
Medium: Water colour
Size cm: 80 x 60                    Price: SOLD

Title: Saltwick Nab
Medium: Oil on board
Size cm: 36 x 21                  Price: £175

Title: Reclining Nude 
Medium: Oil on board
Size cm: 20 x 14            Price: £265