Image: David Cobley RP, ‘In Dreams II’
EXHIBITION AT WHITE CHALK GALLERY:
‘TRACES’
Featuring the work of RP David Cobley and Ceramicist Janene Waudby…
David has been drawing and painting since early childhood.
He trained at Northampton and Liverpool Schools of Art before spending almost 10 years studying and working in Japan.
David Cobley RP, ‘Bandwagon’
In 1989 he was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1997, serving as its Honorary Secretary for four years. His portrait of Ken Dodd OBE was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in 2005, and in 2010 he was commissioned to paint the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Martin Evans for the Gallery’s permanent collection.
In 2019 the BBC asked him to paint Sir David Attenborough as a celebration of his life in broadcasting.
He has had solo shows of his work in London and Bath, and works from a studio in Devizes.
David Cobley RP, ‘The Bedsit’
When?
NOW – 5th October 2024
