David Schock holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, and studied at the Exeter College of Art in England, and at the Art Students League in New York. His instructors included British painter Michael Mayer, and American portrait artists Nelson Shanks and Aaron Shikler. He began his professional career taking commissions as a portrait painter, which he continues to this day. During painting trips to Europe his subject matter expanded into landscape and figurative painting. Success in these genres as well soon followed in shows in London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts. He has since exhibited extensively throughout the United States David specializes in family portraits at the beach, in the backyard, wherever your family loves to spend time together.