David Baird began studying painting at the Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, NM , the Art Students League, NY and Studio Escalier, FR. While studying overseas, he has benefitted from extensive exposure to some of Europe’s greatest works of art. Since 2015 he has participated in the Jerusalem Studio School Master Class program in both Civita Castellana, Italy, and Jerusalem, Israel, and was the recipient of the Avigdor Arikha Memorial Scholarship in 2019. David also travelled broadly teaching drawing and painting in the US, Australia, and Europe.