DAVID FIRMSTONE MBE
Born Middlesborough 1943

EDUCATION
1958-63 Middlesborough College of Art
1972-73 Birmingham University

PROFESSIONAL/TEACHING
1964-74 Teacher / Lecturer of Art / Head of Art at various schools and colleges
1974-98 Senior Art Adviser for Cheshire

AWARDS/PRIZES
1956 Winner, National Exhibition of Children’s Art
1963 Middlesborough College of Art, Drawing prize
1967-68 Artist in Residence, Scott Bader, Northamptonshire
1980 Artist in Residence, Humberside LEA
1988 Prize Winner, Watercolours of the North
1993 Hunting Art Prize, shortlisted for 1st prize
1994-95 St. Helens Open, Cork Street Gallery prize winner
1996 Manchester Academy, painting prize
1998 Chichester Open, People’s prize
1998-99 Hunting Art prize, Manchester prize and shortlisted for 1st prize
1999 Chester Open, 1st prize
Laing Open, prize winner
Bankside Gallery, Waterside\Century 21, Daler Rowney 1st prize, The Artists
prize, and The Ashdown Gallery prize for best landscape
2000 Associate Member, Royal Watercolour Society
2001 Member, Manchester Academy of Fine Art
2001 Hunting Art prize, Manchester prize and shortlisted for 1st prize
2007 Winner of the Cheltenham International Art Prize

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1966 Arts Council, Exhibition for Northern Artists, touring to Denmark & Sweden
1967 Wolverhampton Art Gallery
1968 York, Austin Hayes Gallery
1970 Mold, Theatr Clwyd
1972 Shrewsbury, Nesscliffe Art Gallery, one man show
1972-74 Anglesey & Wrexham, Group 72
1975-83 Cheshire, Woodford Lodge Visual Art Centre
1983 Alsager , College Gallery, one-man show
1984 California, University of Sacramento, one-man show
1985 Llandudno, Welsh Arts Council Open Exhibition
1985-87 Piccadilly Gallery
1987 Art Advisors Touring Exhibition
1988 Mall Galleries, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
Warrington Art Gallery

1993 Alsager, College Gallery, one-man show
1993-95 Piccadilly Gallery
1995 Business Design Centre, Art 95
Chester Art Gallery
San Giovani, Palazzo d’Arnolfo
Royal College of Art
Waterman Fine art
1995-97 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1996 Gallery 27, England’s Glory: an Exhibition of Football
1997 Gallery 27, Winter Collection
Piccadilly Gallery
1999-2001 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Royal College of Art, C20th British Art Fair
2000 Mall Galleries, Discerning Eye
2000-2001 Royal Watercolour Society
Affordable Art Fair
Island Fine Art
2001 New English Art club

COMMISION/COLLECTIONS
Over 60 paintings for the Est Est Est Restaurant chain: work specifically for the restaurants in Chester, Alderley Edge, Edinburgh, Formby, Knutsford, Shrewsbury, Newcastle, Harrogate, Liverpool Glasgow, London Chiswick, London Notting Hill Gate

Work in British Museum, and the Grosvenor Museum, Chester