Woodland Sunset, Cairngorm
Born in 1957, David Smith is a Scottish Contemporary Plein Air artist. The palette and inspiration for his work comes from his love of the Scottish outdoors. He has travelled extensively, hill-walking and mountain climbing across the world, but he always returns to paint in Scotland.
David’s oil and watercolour paintings primarily feature the seaboard and landscape of Scotland. Painting and sketching, Plein Air allows him to immediately capture the colour and harmony of the subject in front of him. This can then be translated onto a finished work in the studio.
David was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 2011. Although predominantly a self-taught artist, David has studied at various colleges including the Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow School of Art, and Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.