David W. Birch is a UK landscape and architecture artist working in watercolour and painted mostly on location, ‘en plein air’. He is  also a wood-engraver and print maker. 

A love of landscape initially led DWB into a 7 year farming career in Warwickshire, Herefordshire and the Cotswolds. His art training, being informal, came from working for a premier fine art and antique dealer, in London and Broadway, Worcestershire and from studying form as a dealer in period watercolours. He became a professional watercolour artist in 1974. His home and studio has been in Chipping Campden since 1970 where his ancestry goes back some 400 years.

Since 1978 David has exhibited regularly in London’s Major Art Open Exhibitions at:
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,
The Royal Watercolour Society,  Conduit Street Gallery and The Bankside Gallery
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at The Mall Gallery
The Soc. of Painter Etchers and Engravers, Conduit St.
The Society of Wood engravers
The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Victoria Art Gallery open exhibition, Bath
The Royal Bath and West Show,
Gloucester City Art Gallery
The Birmingham and Midland Institute
The Barber Institute, Birmingham as an exhibitor in The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Warwick Museum and Art Gallery: watercolours of Warwick.
Goldsmiths College, London, in a joint exhibition with Annabel Carey, his wife: 2 Artist Painters Interpretations of Shostakovich‘s 15 String Quartets. This exhibition was also shown at The Michael Tippet Centre, Bath.

David has had over 100 Solo Exhibitions in the Cotswolds having painted some 90 villages in the area. Works are in private collections worldwide and in public collections  in the UK, including:
Gloucester City Art Gallery
The Senate House, Bristol University
The Warwick corporate collection  of 50 Watercolours of Warwick by David Birch may be viewed by special appointment via the artist: tel. 01386 840682.