David Cobley has a firmly established reputation as a portrait painter, with the Princess Royal and Stephen Berkoff among his subjects. David Cobley won the Brandler Prize and was short-listed for the John Player Portrait Award.

David Cobley’s serene and peaceful paintings of the female nude demonstrate his outstanding mastery of paint, tone and composition. David Cobley has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition for a number of years and his paintings are in many collections around the world. “These days my work is almost entirely about the figure, and how it is affected by the light that falls on and around it. Like many others before me, I am looking for ways of creating drama, mystery and magic in my work”. David Cobley.