Donald Wilkinson was born in Keswick in Cumbria He studied at Carlisle College of Art from 1953-1957 and at the Royal College of Art, 1959-62, where he was awarded the Andrew J. Lloyd scholarship for Landscape. His work mainly focuses the landscape of the Lake District, and is noted for light effects achieved in the atmospheric landscapes.
In a profile interview carried out by the University of Cumbria, Donald expresses his love of the North – ‘I was always being called back home. Even when I was studying in London, on the Cromwell Road right in the middle of everything, I would come back up north for my ideas.’
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