David Rycroft is an English painter living in France. Educated in art and art history at Eton College and Edinburgh University, he received his first national art award aged 19. He taught art in London for ten years and now makes a living as a painter.

Since 1994 David has been developing an innovative technique that brings together some key artistic principles—purity, naturalness, vibrancy, spontaneity, chance and precision. The fruition of this exploration is found in his most recent paintings where he combines the dynamic spaciousness of his ‘unpainted pictures’ with fluent brush-marks depicting elements from the natural world. The adoption of diptych and triptych formats creates an overall sense of structure and rhythm within which the sweeping colour unfolds.

He is co-founder and president of the ClearLight Collective, an international group of artists who share key principles on the nature of art.

Art Teaching

1997 - 2005 Art Teacher at an inner-city girls' secondary school, LondonSet Design - External Exam Moderator - Sixth Form Tutor1993-94 Artist-in-Residence at Culford School, Suffolk

Education and Studies

2002-05 Distance-learning MA in Buddhist Studies (Distinction), University of Sunderland 1996-97 PGCE in Art and Design, Institute of Education, University of London1989-93 MA in History of Art (grade 2:1), University of Edinburgh1983-88 Music scholar, Eton College

Competitions

2007 Celeste Art Prize, London

1995Sunday Times Watercolour     Competition, London

1993 Spectator Art Award, London

1992 Laing Landscape Competition, London

1990 BP Portrait Award, London