Background Information - David Paskett President of The Royal Watercolour Society
David Paskett was born in 1944 in London. He studied fine art at Hornsey College of Art. His distinctive watercolour technique is founded in oil and tempera painting with emphasis on drawing. Intrigued by still life groupings seen on streets and waterways, his work is characterized by detail, clear shadows, controlled tone and rhythmic repeated pattern.
David Paskett lived in Hong Kong from 1986-1990. He worked as an artist at London's Science Museum 1991 and was artist in residence at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1992-1993. David Paskett was elected as a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2001 and elected as Vice-President of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2007
David Paskett was elected President of The Royal Watercolour Society in April 2009
David Paskett representied the Uk as a judge at the Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennale 2010
Awards - David Paskett
1999 - First Prize - Royal Watercolour Society
1997 - American Watercolor Society New York
1996 - Royal Watercolour Society Prize
1994 - Catto Award- Royal Watercolour Society
1993 - Highly Commended Hunting/Observer Competition
1992 - Prizewinner Singer-Freidlandler/Sunday Times competition
1965 - Queens Award to study in Italy
Selected collections - David Paskett
The Royal Collection
RWS Diploma Collection at The British Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum
The Hong Kong Jockey Club
The Hong Kong Tourist Association
Freshfields
Kerry International
Hutchison Whampoa
Shurniak Art Gallery
Selected commissions - David Paskett
Watercolour for the 100th birthday of H M Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
World Bank
Standard Chartered Bank- commemorating 150 years of SCB in China
Philip Morris
Hutchison Whampoa
The Hong Kong Jockey Club
Chinese University of Hong Kong
University of Oxford
China Traveller Magazine
Hargreaves Lansdown
Simmons and Simmons
Selected exhibitions - David Paskett
UK
Regular exhibitor at the Bankside Gallery with RWS, at the Mall Galleries with Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Watercolour and Drawings Fair, Park Lane Hotel and Burlington House.
2009 - The Royal Academy of Arts
2008 - The Bankside Gallery, Martins Gallery Cheltenham
2007 - The Royal Academy of Arts, New Grafton Gallery
2006 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2006 - Messums Gallery London
2005 - Burlington Fine Art London
2004 - Martins Gallery Cheltenham
2003 - Gallery 67 Cork St
2000 - Clarence House Presentation to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
1997 - Catto Gallery
1996 - Norwich Castle
1996 - Woodstock Museum
1994 - University of Oxford, Linacre College The Pastel Society
1993 - Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
China
2008 - No18 The Bund, Shanghai- exhibition of commissioned paintings - Standard Chartered Bank
2008 - Hilton Hotel, Beijing - exhibition of commissioned paintings - Standard Chartered Bank
Hong Kong
Private exhibitions of David Paskett's work are held every November in Hong Kong
2007 - Picture This
2006 - Picture This
2003 - Gallerie Du Monde
1999 - The China Club
1998 - Ladies Recreation Club
1996 - American Club, Wattis Fine Art, The Shangri la
1994 - Citibank Plaza
1990 - The HK Jockey Club
1989 - Government House, The Landmark, Society General
1988 - Hong Kong Art Centre
1987 - Alisan Fine Art
USA
1996 - The Washington Museum of Fine Arts
1997 - The Salmagundi Club, Fifth Avenue
CANADA
2005 - Shurniak Art Gallery Saskatchewan- Permenent collection
AUSTRALIA
2010