Tag: David Eustace

Born in Birmingham in 1950, the artist David Eustace completed a Foundation course at Sutton Coldfield Art College, followed by a degree course in Fine Art at Exeter College of Art. He went on to Leicester Polytechnic in 1976 and trained as a teacher. Eustace worked in the style of English imaginative painters, producing anecdotal and narrative paintings in the tradition of Stanley Spencer, Alfred Wallace and Beryl Cook. Among the other influences he cited were Rene Magritte, Douanier Rousseau, Atkinson Grimshaw, William Blake and David Hockney. Eustace was an artist who observed closely and then used his own imagination to produce magical and often humorous and eccentric works which interpreted his own dreams, memories and emotions. He was awarded membership of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2003 and in the same year was the winner of the RBA David Wolfers Memorial Prize. HIs art work is exhibited in a number of museums and institutions and leading art galleries in the UK and elsewhere.