Reflections III (36×24 acrylic painting on canvas)

David Schock was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1962. He received a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, took classes at the Exeter College of Art in England as well as the Art Students League in New York. He learned from British painter Michael Mayer, and American portrait artists Nelson Shanks and Aaron Shikler. Schock started out as a portrait painter. Over the course of trips to Europe his subject matter expanded into landscape and figurative painting. He has since exhibited extensively throughout the United States, including regular exhibits in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts as well as in Carmel, California, and Newport, Rhode Island.