"My morning begins with a walk before I go to the studio, out of the village and along the Alham, a shallow river less than 10 miles long, lying in a green Somerset valley. I don't draw from life but the walk and the time for thinking it allows offer a starting point."
A regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, David Brayne was awarded the prestigious Turner Medal for Watercolour in 2015 at the Royal Watercolour Society.
The Florence Biennale committee has invited David to exhibit at this year's festival. The festival opens this October.
After studying art at Nottingham School of Art and Gloucestershire College of Art, David later went on to study philosophy at the University of Exeter.
David's work has been exhibited both in solo and group exhibitions in galleries in the UK, Italy, USA and China. It is held public collections including The Royal Collection; Qingdao Museum, China; The Institute of Modern Art, Mumbai; Cyril Fry; The Royal Watercolour Society; The Ingram collection and in private collections around the world.