Colin H Davidson

Born 1961, and raised in Donaghadee Co. Down, now living in East Belfast.
Married to Libby, we have two grown up children and one grandchild.
Served my four year apprenticeship in Harland & Wolff from 1977-81 and a further nine years working in different departments leaving in 1990, now currently employed by Bombardier Aerospace as a Tool Design Engineer.

I have been interested in art most of my adult life and took up painting as a hobby in 1982. Attending different art clubs and colleges I soon realised that I had a slight colour blind imbalance with some green and brown colour tones.
This frustrated me at the time, but I soon learnt to avoid what everyone else could see.
Most of my earlier work completed from 1985-1995 would have been related to either ships, seascapes or cityscapes, seldom working on landscapes.
In addition to the above I have been involved with two amateur dramatic societies designing backdrops.

Influenced by modern day impressionists, Edward Seago and Trevor Chamberlain and more recently by American modernist painter, Edward Hopper.

Harland & Wolff has changed dramatically since I left in 1990, but it hasn't changed my memory. Over the last six years I have been painting scenes from these...

Donaghadee High School '76