David Caldwell RP

David Caldwell was born in Helensburgh in the West of Scotland in 1977. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1994-98) and the Royal Drawing School (2003-05). He has won several awards and residencies including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Bulldog Bursary, the Founder’s Purchase Prize at the ING Discerning Eye (adjudged by the late Brian Sewell), and the Smallwood Architects Prize at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2019.

He has twice been short-listed for the BP Portrait Awards, where in 2013 he displayed 77 miniature portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.

He has recently been short-listed for various other major awards including the Seven Investments Management ‘Conversations’ Prize, the Ruth Borchard Self-portrait Prize, the Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Award and the W. Gordon Smith Award. David lives and works as an artist and portrait painter in Glasgow.