David Wiseman

ELECTED ARWS 2021 & RWS 2025

Since leaving the Royal College of Art in 1975, David Wiseman has exhibited widely. Important group exhibitions include the New Contemporaries, John Moores, Hayward Annual, The R.A. Summer Exhibition, Discerning Eye, London Group Open, and the Royal Watercolour Society. Individual shows include those at the Serpentine Gallery, Rowley Gallery, and Water Street Gallery. He has exhibited in curated exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge and the Camden Arts Centre, and taken part in touring exhibitions in Germany, USA, and Spain.

He is represented in many corporate and public collections including the Arts Council, Prudential, Bank of England, The Open University, Lewisham Hospital and many more. His work is represented in private collections in all parts of the world and he has completed 8 major public art works including large scale murals at Charing Cross, Frimley Park, Royal London and Ealing Hospitals. He is the winner of the RWS Purchase Prize 2016, the Daler Rowney Prize 2016 and the RWS Publicity Prize 2018.

David was elected to the London Group in 2013, the Arborealists in 2016 and the Royal Watercolour Society in 2021.

“My paintings are begun in a loose freely drawn calligraphic way using a wide variety of brushes, rollers, scrapers, sponges etc. the final image being extracted in a playful organic way using overlaid marks and glazes to express qualities in nature such as mood, light, colour, atmosphere. I want to convey a feeling of change and movement in the landscape and for the paintings to be playful, intriguing, tantalising and ambiguous held between the pure plastic qualities of the paint and all the celebratory, magical illusions and evocations of the depiction of nature.”