About the Artist David Warren

About the artist

David Warren has painted and drawn all his life. At
age four he received his first art lesson from his
aunt, who directed his attention outside to observe
the blue sky and how it meets the earth at the
horizon.

David's school electives were always art classes
and during his senior year in high school he won
the top award for his art porfolio entry for a full
scholarship to Kilgore Junior College. He later
graduated with a BA from Texas A & M, Corpus
Christi, also under full scholarship. Over the next 12
years, he worked for commercial fine art galleries
and then the Menil Collection in Houston.

The artist currently lives and works outside Bastrop
in the Lost Pines of Central Texas. Nature is his
inspiration as seen in his newest botanical series of
watercolors. Presently he is working on ceramic
forms that are botanical examples of the desert.
Cacti, agave and grasses are the muse of the
moment.

Selected Collectors

The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Exhibition Models 1986 – 1994

Texas Eye Associates, Houston, Texas
1989 – 1994 (collection dispersed)

Walter Hopps’ Estate, Houston, Texas

Lost Pines Hyatt Regency Resort, Bastrop, Texas

Happy Horse Hotel, Cedar Creek, Texas

Clyde Clardy Jr., Cedar Creek, Texas

Carlene & Henry Tomlin, Bastrop, Texas

Faith & Dewayne Perry, Austin, Texas

Nancy Knight, Wimberly, Texas

Kelley Amen Designs, Houston, Texas

Martha Clair Tompkins, Houston, Texas

Debby Breckeen, Houston, Texas / Mexico

William Lassiter, Houston, Texas

Salley Vaughn, Houston, Texas

Bob Butler – Sonny Burt, Dallas, Texas

Donna Hall – Gail Rodriguez, Dallas, Texas

Barbara & William Bergen, Alexander, Arkansas

Nancy & Paul Saliterman, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bruce Fields, Bryce Canyon, Utah

Exhibition History

Leapin' Lizard Studio & Gallery, Terlingua                 Ongoing
Texas

Austin Bergstrom International Airport                     May - July, 15 2010
Featuring Lost Pines Artisans Alliance

Lost Pines Center for Cancer Care                            March 2010
Bastrop, Texas
More Big Bend Views

Mary Nichols Art Center, Smithville, Texas               April 2009
Lost Pines Artisans Allaince
Nudes: The Body Unveiled

Mary Nichols Art Center, Smithville, Texas               Fall 2008
Lost Pines Artisans Alliance
Inaugrual Exhibition

Bastrop Fine Arts Guild, Bastrop, Texas
Big Bend: Intimate Views                                              September 2007

Wilhelmi Holland Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas
MasXmas                                                                         December 2006

Bastrop Fine Arts Guild, Bastrop, Texas
Big Bend: Where the Sky & Earth Meet                     April 2006

Bastrop Fine Arts Guild, Bastrop, Texas
Portraits of Bastrop                                                       September 2004

Bastrop Fine Arts Guild, Bastrop, Texas
For the Birds                                                                    April 2003

YMCA Art Park, Corpus Christi, Texas
James Surls & David Warren                                     Summer, 1994

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Out of This World                                                            March – May 1994

Wilhelmi Holland Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas
Scene                                                                                May – June 1993

Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
Sit, Stand and Wonder                                                 Dec – January 1993

Wilhelmi Holland Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas
The Red & The Green                                                   Dec – January 1992

Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
Out!                                                                                  May – June 1991

Visual Collision Gallery, Houston, Texas
Mute                                                                                Jan – February 1990

Visual Collision Gallery, Houston, Texas
911                                                                                  Aug – Sept. 1989

Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio, Texas
Furniture and Appliances                                          July 1987

Gallery on Waugh, Houston, Texas
Furniture                                                                        May 1987

Dave on the South Rim in Big Bend National Park.

Dave in the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma.

The artist with a poster
enlargement of his Purple Prickly
Pear Bloom shown in Austin
Bergstrom International Airport.