David Prentice
24th September to 15th October, 2005
David Prentice has had a long and distinguished career as a teacher and painter. During the 1960's he was a prime mover in the foundation and development of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, while also lecturing in fine art at Birmingham College of Art. Until he retired in 1968 most of his teaching career was spent in Birmingham at what is now the University of Central England.
After retirement as Director of the B.A. Fine Arts course in 1986, he spent a number of years as Fellow in Fine Art at Nottingham University and was a visiting artist at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University. In 1990 he won first prize for his painting 'January - Bonfires - Malvern' in The Sunday/Times Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Competition. In the same year he established his studio and home on the flanks of the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.
The intervening years have seen him emerge as something of an ambassador for that part of England and one of Britain’s foremost painters of the landscape.
Exhibition organised by the John Davies Gallery