AN UNUSUAL ARTIST

     David Whittaker was born in Cornwall and is currently based in Newquay. He is self-taught, has exhibited widely and won the first prize at The National Open Art Competition in 2011.
In 2011 Whittaker was also an invited artist at ‘The Discerning Eye’ Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. He has also shown with The St Ives Society of Artists, The Lock Up, London, in The House of Fairytales at Millennium, in an NSA Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, at the Hyde Park Gallery, London and in 2005 he was selected to show at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Whittaker was elected a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists in 2009 and in 1998 he was listed in the ‘Dictionary of Arts in Britain since 1945’ by David Buckman.