Brilliant Hues: The Power of Red & Gold

David Kim Whittaker (b. 1964)
David Kim Whittaker was born in Cornwall, UK, in 1964 and currently resides in the seaside town
of Newquay. A self-taught artist, most of Whittaker’s paintings are based on an interpretation of
the human head and its metaphysical core. Whittaker’s portraits are ambiguous, with an aim for
representing the universal alongside the personal. The works often juggle dual states of inner and
outer calmness and conflict, offering a glimpse of strength and fragility, the conscious and the
subconscious, the masculine and the feminine. These universal states of conflict clearly identifiable
in Whittaker's works are arguably reinforced by Whittaker’s gender dysphoria and the personal
struggle with a condition that he/she has learned to live with through the endeavour of expressing
something bigger than oneself through painting. David Kim Whittaker was the recipient of the Towry
Award (First Prize) at the 2011 National Open Art Competition and has exhibited internationally.
Cream Tea Pavilions, 2007
Oil and acrylic on canvas . 61 x 61 cm | 24 x 24 in
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