David Kirk Southwold, Suffolk 2005

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About the artist

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DAVID KIRK (b. 1960)

DAVID KIRK grew up in rural Somerset and studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford from 1980 to 1983. He is currently head of the History of Art Department at Uppingham School and exhibits regularly at the Rona Gallery in Mayfair, as well as at galleries in Bath and Cambridge. Best known for a kind of rural surrealism in which he depicts mysteriously significant events unfolding in the English countryside, he has been influenced both by Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash. He was prompted to paint Aldeburgh by an advertisement for a competition sponsored by the House of Lords. The brief was to produce a painting in the style of a 1930s travel poster. His Aldeburgh painting looks northwards from the extreme southern end of the town by the river Alde. In the foreground it shows the tower of Fort Green Mill, which was converted into a house in 1902, and, beyond this, the Brudenell Hotel. Many of David Kirk’s paintings are available as limited edition prints through his website, www.davidkirkartist.co.uk . A collection of his paintings can also be viewed (or purchased as prints online) on the Bridgeman Art on Demand Site.

Catching the bus (click on image to go to David Kirk's website)