Bio
David Taylor is a world-renowned watercolour artist, well known for teaching and services to the arts. Born in Melbourne Australia in 1941, David’s early career began in etching and a 6-year apprenticeship at the north Melbourne Printing School of Graphic Arts to colour etching assisted in his future career as an artist.
Many hand skills were learned such as hand engraving, lino and woodcutting, as well as etching with zinc, copper and magnesium, later etching on film in lithography. David is involved in regular tutorials for the Australian and International Artist magazine. David’s numerous achievements include over one hundred awards in watercolour, including the Herald Sun Best of Show Gold Medal Award at The Camberwell Rotary Exhibition 2002, a silver medal in 1976, and Silver Award in 2007.
David won the prestigious Victorian Artists Society Artist of The Year Award in 1976, 1980 and again in 1989. That same year, David received the Distinguished Leadership Award for outstanding services to watercolour and teaching from the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership and a certificate of merit for distinguished service to the community.
David’s paintings are in collections in Italy, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, China, Japan, USA, UK, Sweden, Australia, the Guernsey Museum, Newcastle and Ube On Tyne Collections, Consul of Switzerland, Melbourne Town Hall, Castlemaine Regional Gallery and City of Camberwell Collection Australia.
