DAVID FINNELL

Watercolors

Website: FinnellWatercolor.com E-mail: camdensquare@earthlink.net

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David has been painting in watercolor for twenty years.  In the early 1980s, while stationed at Fort Belvoir as an Army officer, he began taking watercolor classes at the Torpedo factory in Alexandria.
David has studied with acclaimed watercolorists Tom Lynch, Tony van Hasselt, Frank Webb, and Ron Ranson.  David's entries appear regularly at local juried art shows.  At the Waterford fair in October 2006, he won First Place honors.  In 2004, he was the featured artist at the Strasburg library.  In 2005, he had a show at The Left Bank, a gallery and frame shop in Leesburg.

David lives in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley with his wife and daughter.  He teaches English at Sherando High School in Stephens City. "I look for legitimate excuses," he says, "to make my students draw and write in the same assignment."

In his paintings David strives for a fresh, loose, impressionistic view of the surrounding countryside.  Incorporating his life-long interest in the Civil War, he is working on a series of paintings of ruins of Shenandoah Valley mills destroyed in the war.