Dai Wynn

Dai Wynn is an Australian artist working from a studio located in the leafy eastern suburb of Canterbury, about 10 kilometres due east of central Melbourne in Victoria.

Dai is an abbreviation of the Welsh Christian name of Dafydd (pronounced Dahveth) and Wynn has the meaning of “white” or “fair skinned” in Welsh.

Dai (in other contexts he answers to his given name – David) is a realist painter in oils and water colours, producing works of landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and floral arrangements, as well as portraits.

He is a regular exhibitor in the Rotary Herald-Sun Art Show in Camberwell, and has exhibited in the Shanghai International Art Fair thrice in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The Shanghai Art Fair is the largest in China and features several hundred galleries from around the world, attracting some 65,000 visitors over five days.

Dai has completed several commissioned portraits of distinguished Australians.

Dai submitted a portrait for the 2010 Archibald Prize. He was one of almost 700 artists to enter the prestigious Archibald Prize for Portraiture in 2008.

He exhibited at Melbourne’s Collingwood Gallery in February 2011, at the 2011 Herald-Sun Rotary Art Show in Caulfield 14-17 April, and showed again at the Collingwood Gallery, 292 Smith Street, from 29 April 2011.

He showed works at the Kew Courthouse, High Street, Kew, Victoria 20 June – 11 July, 2011 with the Boroondara Artists Travelling Show (BATS).

He showed with BATS at the Kew Courthouse, 188 High Street, Kew, Victoria on 8 October 2011.

Dai exhibited seven of his works in Geelong in March 2012; five oils at Edrington in Berwick in mid-February 2012; and three oils at the Camberwell Rotary Art Show in April 2012.

He will show three oils and two watercolours at the South Eastern Arts Festival at St Margaret’s in Berwick, VIC 13-15 April 2012.