David Lawrence Carpanini (born 1946) is a Welsh artist,

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, teacher and printmaker whose drawings, paintings and etchings are mostly concerned with the natural and industrial landscapes of South Wales. He was President of the

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(1995–2003) and was Professor of Art at the

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(1992–2000). Carpanini was born of Italian and Welsh descent in the Afan Valley in Glamorgan in Wales in 1946, the son of Lawrence Carpanini and Gwenllian (née Thomas), and was educated at Glan Afan Grammar School in

Port Talbot Port Talbot (, ) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south ...

. He trained as an artist at Gloucestershire College of Art, the

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and the

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. In 1969 he won the British Institution Awards Committee Annual Scholarship for engraving, going on to teach Art at the

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from 1972 until December 1978, and at

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from 1979 to 1986.Biography of David Lawrence Carpinin
on the

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website He was Head of Art and Design at

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, and became Professor when it gained university status in 1992, a post he held until 2000. He has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts, and has exhibited at other major venues in the UK and abroad.Biography of Carpanini on The New English Art Club website
/ref>The Paintings of David Carpanini - the Fosse Gallery
/ref> Carpanini has exhibited at various galleries including the

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, the New Arts Centre and the

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. He has held solo exhibitions at the

Welsh Arts Council The Arts Council of Wales (ACW; cy, Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru) is a Welsh Government-sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales. Established within the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1946, as the Welsh Arts ...

, the Warwick Arts Festival (1986), the Mostyn Gallery (1988), the Rhondda Heritage Gallery (1989 and 1994), Walsall Museum (1989) and St David's Hall, Cardiff (1999) among others. He was elected RE (1982) (ARE 1979); RWA (1983) (ARWA 1977); RBA (1976); NEAC (1983);

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1992; Hon RWS (1996), and Hon

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(2000). His paintings are held in the collections of the Royal Collection, the

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in Cardiff, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, Newport Museum and Art Gallery,

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, the

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, The Welsh Mining Museum; British Steel,

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, Bangor University,

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, the

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, the

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, the Ashmolean Museum in

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and by private collectors around the world. His work has been the subject of three documentaries: ''Everyone - A Special Kind of Artist - David Carpanini'' -

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(1984); ''David Carpanini - Artist of Wales'' - HTV (1987) and ''A Word in Your Eye'' - HTV (1997). David Carpanini is married to the watercolourist Jane Carpanini (born 1949); they live in Leamington Spa.

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