David Jenks

 

David Jenks has exhibited in galleries across the United States and in Japan. Articles about him have appeared in Realism Today, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Artist, Southwest Art, American Art Collector and Art of the West.

His paintings hang in a number of corporate collections including Bank of America, Fluor Corporation, and Raymond James Financial. 

David is a Signature Artist Member of the California Art Club.

Born in 1943, David grew up in Massachusetts where he started drawing at an early age by studying the inspiring illustrations of Howard Pyle and N. C. Wyeth in books from his father's childhood.

Having attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, David graduated from Williams College with an Art History degree in 1965. The intervening years saw various career highlights including several years as a full time carpenter in the Hollywood film industry. 

By the mid-1980s David made a full commitment to painting with a year in Somerset in the Southwest of England launching him into painting en plein air — beginning in 1983 and continuing in California on the Big Sur and Mendocino coasts — leading to his first one-man show in 1986. 

After spending seven winters painting in Sedona, Arizona and as many summers painting on the coast of Maine, David's longing for the shores of California beckoned his return to Mendocino, where he lived and continued painting for many years.

David recently moved to Southern California. But he still lives close to his favorite subject: the sea.