Biography
David Prentice is an internationally renowned landscape painter in the great tradition of Constable or Spencer, whose works are featured in innumerable private and public collections around the world. Born in 1936 in Solihull, Warwickshire, David attended the Moseley School of Art & Craft before graduating from the Birmingham College of Arts & Crafts in 1957. He has lectured at a number of leading institutions, including the Birmingham College of Arts & Crafts, Ruskin School of Fine Art and the University of Central England and in 1964 he co-founded the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. Since his first solo exhibition at The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1961, David has had over 40 one-man shows, taken part in countless group exhibitions and has won a significant number of prestigious awards, including the Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Award. He lives and works in the Malverns and continues to exhibit with The John Davies Gallery in Stow-on-the-Wold. PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS. The Art Institute of Chicago. Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery. Bradford Art Gallery. Victoria & Albert Museum. Arts Council of Great Britain. The House of Commons. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA.

Awards & Prizes
1999 - Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Award (second prize). 1999 - Birmingham Pastel Society (first prize). 1997 - Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition (commended). 1996 - Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (third prize). 1992 - Birmingham Pastel Society (Everyman prize). 1990 - Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (first prize). 1990 - Birmingham Pastel Society (Everyman prize). 1989 - City of Birmingham Centenary Exhibition - Windsor & Newton Sponsor Prize. 1989 - Pastel Society, London (Daler Rowney Award). 1988 - Birmingham Pastel Society (Everyman prize). 1985 - Lamport Hall (first prize). 1958 - Royal Artillery (painting prize). 1955 - Industrial Britain (painting prize)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001 - ' The Coloured Counties' - The John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold. 1999 - The Cowleigh Gallery, Malvern. 1998 - 'From the Heart of the Country' - The John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold. 1996 - The John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold. 1994 - Art First, Cork Street, London. 1993 - Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2000 - 'Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London - invited artist. 1999 - 'Mountain', Wolverhampton Art Gallery. 1997-98 - Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition Exhibition. 1992/93/97 - Hunting/Observer Art Prizes. 1995 - 'William Gear: Past & Present Friends' - Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery. 1992 - 'Watercolours From Birmingham: 150 Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection - RWS, Bankside. 1989-99 - Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition. 1989,90-93 - Pastel Society. 1989-90 - Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. 1989 - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Soho, New York.