David Webb

David Webb makes abstract paintings, works on paper, prints and stained glass. He studied at Hastings, Aberystwyth and Canterbury, before graduating in 2002 with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Cyprus College of Art. He has completed residencies at the Florence Trust, London, and the Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn; as well as painting Fellowships in the United States at MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Vermont Studio Center. David’s awards include The David & Rosamond Putnam Transportation Grant, Arts Council England and The Gihon River Collective Fellowship.

His first solo exhibitions were in Cyprus and Armenia in 2002/3, and have since included The Royal Over-Seas League, Transition Gallery, dalla Rosa Gallery and Kapil Jariwala Gallery. Group exhibitions since 2008 include the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Exeter Contemporary Open, Eagle Gallery and the University of Greenwich. He has also taken part in numerous group exhibitions in continental Europe and the United States. David has work in public and private collections in the United Kingdom and internationally, including The National Library of Wales, The Fitzwilliam Museum and the Kasser Mochary Foundation, New Jersey. His public stained glass windows include Stoke Newington (High Street) Methodist Church and a suite of panels for the Bonsall collection, London.

David lives and works in London. He has been teaching painting and drawing part-time at The Conservatoire, Blackheath, since 1999 and is a regular visiting artist / tutor at the Cyprus College of Art. From 2024-26 David was a Mentor for the Clyde Hopkins Mentoring Award at the Art in Perpetuity Trust, London, where he has held a studio since 2003.