Curriculum Vitae

1953 Born and brought up at Guiting Power, Gloucestershire. Educated at Marlborough College
1972 - 76 Gloucestershire College of Art and Design
Bristol College of Art ( 1st class Hons.)
1977 - 80 Postgraduate studies, London and Paris

Solo Exhibitions

1982 Arts Council Purchase Prize, Cheltenham Society of Artists
1986 Devizes Museum. 18th Century Gardens of Wiltshire
1988 Travellers Club, London. Paintings of Albania and Istanbul
1990 - 1996 Artist in Residence, Garsington Opera
1994 Archeus Fine Art, Albemarle Street, London W1
1994 Jerram Gallery, Salisbury
1995 Jerram Gallery, Salisbury
1996 Archeus Fine Art, Albemarle Street
1997 The Sloane Club, London.
1997 Tolbooth Centre, Kirkcudbright
1998 Grosvenor House, London.
1998 Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
1999 Daphne Johns Contemporary Art, St. James', London SW1
1999 Birmingham University
2000 Dorset County Museum, Dorchester.
2002 London, an Inspiration.
Archeus Fine Art, Albemarle Street, London W1
2002 Sherborne, Gallery Holt
2003 London Garden Squares
Archeus Fine Art, Albemarle Street, London W1
2003 Beaminster Festival
2004 London Garden Squares 2004,
Beaminster Festival
2004 Elder & Froy, Beaminster: Small Paintings for Christmas.
2005 Beaminster Festival June 24th
2005 Oil paintings of the Jurassic Coast, Beaminster (oct)

Mixed Shows

1992 - 1998 Henley regatta exhibition
2001 Mixed show:Derek Johns Fine Art, St James', London SW1
2003 Affordable Art Fair with the Mae Gallery, Battersea Park
2003 Town Mill Lyme Regis

Travel and commissions

1988 - 89 Travel Painting Commission: Albania and aspects of Istanbul
1990 - 96 Artist in residence at Garsington Opera, Oxford
1995 - 97 Travel Painting Commission: Journeys across Southern Sahara, & Ethiopia
1994 - 98 Painting trips through Galloway
and the Highlands of Scotland
1996 - 99 Painting at Cowes week and Henley Royal Regatta
1999 Painting in Venice and Vicenza
1997 Travel Painting Commission:
The Lost cities of the Mediterranean
1999 Travel Painting Commission:
Athens to the Red Sea on a Tall Ship
2000 Alentejo, Portugal. County Kerry, Ireland.
2001 Travel painting commission in Lebanon.
2001 & 02 Painting in Corfu
2001 Painting in North Uist
2002 - 04 Portrait commissions
2003 Recording a cricket match at Butrint
2004 Commisioned ceiling painting for Ennismore Gardens.
2004 Portrait commissions.
2004 Landscape and House commissions
2004 Painting trip to Malta
2005 Painting in Kenya, (March).
2005 Double Portrait , July 05

Galleries holding selected paintings
by David Risk Kennard

Elder & Froy, Beaminster, Dorset. Tel: 01308 862606
Archeus Fine Art , 3, Albemarle Street, London W1 Tel: 0207 499 9755
Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge Tel: 01264 810364
David holds an annual Open Studio exhibition in Dorset (May and August). Please telephone for details