David Cross
David Cross is an award winning Visual Artist and a Visual Art Educator for 40 years with a Masters Degree in Art from the USA. Retired from Head of Dept Visual Art duties, David is currently concentrating on his passions of drawing and oil painting.
David is inspired by what he sees, using light as a catalyst and how it imparts on the subject matter. Subjects are inspired from his world travels, his local Moreton Bay environment and the human figure. These images are transformed on canvas and/or paper, letting colour, tone and texture exuberate his starting point of imagery.
David’s professional art practice almost exclusively entails painting in oils as he believes the richness and longevity of colour is important when applying paint to original lasting artworks. In his new artworks, David pushes the boundaries of his oil painting by visually layering glass and light and textures that enhance the images emerging in oil paint. Reflection plays an important role in this process.
David has been awarded with numerous awards and his work accepted into many juried exhibitions. such as below:
- Finalist in Brisbane Institute of Art Milburn Art Prize, and Moreton Bay Art Awards, May 2019
- Best of Show, Nundah Village Art Awards, Brisbane, Sept 2018
- Invited group exhibition, ‘Quilt Challenge’, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Curator S Lewis 2018
- Finalist in the Clayton Utz Art Awards, Brisbane, Oct 2017,. Allison Kubler, Judge
- Third Prise Matthew Flinders Art Awards, Bribie Island, July 2017
- Highly Commended Nundah Village Art Awards, Brisbane, Sept 2017
- Invited group exhibition, ‘Perception’, Hervey Bay Regional Gallery 2016
- Highly Commended in the Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition at the Bribie Island Community Arts Centre in July 2013
- First Place in the Matthew Flinders Art Exhibition at the Bribie Island Community Arts Centre in July 2012
- First Place, 2D, in the Bluewater Festival Art Show in Shorncliffe. 2012
- Highly Commended in the Arts Alliance of Pine Rivers Art show 2011.
- Finalist in the Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular, 2014, 2013, 2012
David’s work are in collections in the USA, Europe and Australia and exhibiting here online at Naracoopa Gallery.
David’s original Artwork shown here is for sale or David will also accept commission work based on his paintings.
