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David Green was born in 1929 into a family of
artists and designers. His own art
training commenced at Exeter and in 1949, after
completing his national Service in the Royal
Artillery, he entered the Royal College of Art
School of Ceramics.
Later he changed direction to the study of
traditional painting and printmaking methods at
the old Hornsey College of Art under Jesse Cast,
Norman Janes and Henry Holzer. |
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Between 1953 and 1957 he taught at several London
colleges of art and for the next twenty-four years
full-time in the ceramic section of Carlisle College of
Art and the Bath Academy. In 1981, he left
teaching in order to return to his own work and has
since held many exhibitions in galleries at Bath,
Henley-on-Thames, Rye, Aldeburgh, Snape, Heffers in
Cambridge and the Wigmore Hall in London. In
earlier years in London, he had exhibited at the Royal
Academy, the Royal Watercolour Society, the
Painter-Etchers and the Leicester Galleries.
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During his years of full-time teaching, David
published a number of practical books on pottery
and wood sculpture through Faber and Faber,
Gollancz and other companies in the USA and
Holland. | |
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More recently he has embarked upon publishing limited
editions under his own imprint - Greensprings Press,
Woodbridge - commencing with SUFFOLK ESTUARIES (1998)
which reveals his delight in the local scenery, and AT
THE WATER'S EDGE (1999) which takes a closer look at the
colour, pattern and form of small boats, etc.
A well-known collection of greetings cards and
facsimile prints of David's watercolours has been
printed by The Five Castles Press over the last eight
years.
David came to live in East Anglia from the West
Country in 1990. |
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