David Jamieson began studying drawing and painting in 1996 at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. He went on to receive an MFA cum laude from the New York Academy of Art, where he was awarded the first Prince of Wales Scholarship from that institution in 2000.

He has taught figurative drawing, painting and anatomy to undergraduate, graduate and private students in Toronto, Chicago, New York City, and at The King’s Foundation in London, England. His work has been featured in American Artist Drawing Magazine and Poets & Artists Magazine. In 2016, David was named a semi-finalist in the Outwin-Boochever Portrait Competition hosted by the Smithsonian, and in 2024 he won the First Place Award for Drawing in the Portrait Society of America’s International Competition. His work is included in the collection of His Majesty King Charles III, in the permanent collection of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and other private collections in Canada and the United States.

David is a co-founder and primary instructor at Vitruvian Fine Art Studio, where he has taught drawing, painting and anatomy since 2006. David lives with his wife, artist Melinda Whitmore, in Oak Park, Illinois.

You can visit David's personal website here.