David Baumforth

"My pictures are not necessarily pretty - they are the truth"

Baumforth was born in York and paints the places he loves; the North Sea, its coastline and hinterland, and more recently the landscape of Granada and Eastern Andalucia. His work combines a contemporary viewpoint with the tradition of the European Romantics. He is uncompromising in his pursuit of nature's passion.

He is a nationally and internationally respected painter who has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions - including the R.A. Summer Exhibitions, R.W.S. Open and The Hunting Prizes at the R.C.A.

'Baumforth is a painter of sea and landscape who stands foursquare and unapologetic in the Romantic Turnerian tradition, but, as his powerfully evocative works make clear, it is to the later Turner of the near-abstract, apparently unfinished canvases and the rapid free intuitive watercolour studies, all mist and light and spray, with strange forms emerging from the shadows, that he is always looking'

William Packer, former Financial Times Art Critic.