“I am trying to distil the poetry that is beneath the surface of things.”

Much collected in the UK, David Risk Kennard has been living and painting in Dorset for 25 years. His passion for landscape, trees and nature has been developed from childhood. His father a farmer in the Cotswolds and his mother a Scottish painter: he was raised in the English landscape with childhood holidays spent in Scotland.

Born in Gloucestershire in 1953, David Risk Kennard was trained at Bristol College of Art. Post Graduate studies were undertaken in London and Paris.

David has travelled widely abroad, most recently staying for a 4 month period of painting on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

David’s watercolour and ink paintings have earned him critical acclaim and a loyal following of supporters.  He has been commissioned to travel and paint in many parts of the world, including Africa, Albania, Scotland and at Cowes Week (sponsored by Mumm Champagne), as well as painting landscapes around Powerstock and Eggardon Hill.  He has created many fine architectural paintings, from Venetian palazzos to Maltese castles, and he was invited to make a series of paintings of London squares.  These were used to great effect in London Underground posters.  Commissions have included many house portraits, oil and conte-crayon portraits and a painted ceiling in Ennismore Gardens. 

A professional artist for all his life David won the Arts Council Purchase Prize in 1982 and ever since has exhibited frequently at galleries in London and the provinces.