David Gregory

David Gregory is a traditional realist painter working in watercolor and oil with an emphasis on landscapes and cityscapes, though he also paints still-lifes, portraits, and trompe l’oeil (French for "fool the eye"). He has been a painter for nearly fifty years and has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions. Over forty-five hundred of his paintings and more than one hundred etchings can be found in public and private collections in the USA and abroad.

David has been juried into the following national and international art venues: The FIGGE Museum “43rd Rock Island Art Guild Exhibition”, 2024; The Crocker-Kingsley National Exhibition, 2023; The 38th Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition 2023; Cape Cod Museum of Art “All the World’s a Stage” 2022; Evansville Museum of Art “61st Mid-states Exhibition” 2022; National Watercolor Society 50 Stars 2020; Rocky Mountain National Watermedia 2020; The Adirondack National Exhibition of American Watercolors 2018 (click on RESUME / CV for a full list). 

David was born in Canton, illinois, in 1947. He began his art training while studying architecture at the University of Illinois, but an exhibit of landscape paintings by art professor Billy Morrow Jackson ignited a desire to study painting.  He enrolled in Jackson’s classes and continued to receive private critiques and mentoring in Jackson's studio after leaving the university.

When not painting, David enjoys reading novels, flower gardening, cycling, and cooking. He also loves to travel in search of new inspiration and has enjoyed lengthy painting journeys to England, Holland, Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Singapore, and, most recently, Venice and Florence, Italy. David lived in Hawaii and California for several years, but has returned to his native Midwest. He now lives in Peoria, Illinois with his wife Renée.