David Drinon
Member since 2019
Dave's approach to painting comprises a blend of academic training along with the Cape Ann School and the Boston School of painters. Cape Ann influencers are contemporary painters Stapleton Kearns and David Curtis. Dave also studied with Boston School painters Thomas R. Dunlay and Paul Ingbretson. Dave studied studio painting at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester NH. Passion: Painting outdoors in all the different times of the year and seasons around New England
* Selected as Artist-In-Residence at the Whistler House Museum of Art in 2015, 2016
* Juried member of the North Shore Arts Association in Gloucester MA 2016
* Accepted into the Copley Society of Art in Boston MA 2017
* Selected artist for the 2020 and 2021 Cape Ann Plein Air Festival
* Exhibited: Massachusetts State House, Boston MA; Bristol Art Museum, Bristol Rhode Island; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell MA; Andover
Historical Society, Andover MA; Guild of Boston Painters, Boston MA; Copley Art Society, Boston MA among others.
* Dave's works are owned by individual collectors as well as institutions such as the City of Lowell (Lowell City Hall); Enterprise Bank in Lowell MA;
Boston Partners Financial Group in Andover MA; Lowell Community Health Center; Lahey Clinic in Burlington MA, MKtix Company and Toast Vodka
in Fort Lauderdale FL among others.
* Dave maintains a north light studio at the Western Ave Studios in Lowell MA #512
All images ©David Drinon