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David was born in Maitland, Australia in 1961. From an early age, he desired to be an artist & grew up in an art-loving family. This pursuit led him to develop skills & work in a diversity of areas including sign writing, commercial art, illustration, set designing & bronze casting. Yet foremost has been his passion for painting. David completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts, majoring in Painting & Sculpture in 1992, & a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) majoring in Painting in 1995. He wrote a thesis about the revitalization of Christian Art in Australia. David has taught in Tertiary Art Education & Creative Art Conferences in Australia & Singapore, inspiring & encouraging others to pursue their own talents & passions.
David’s work is poetic & full of vibrant, explosive colour, with thick, often drippy passages of paint. He desires to speak about his personal convictions & the concerns of the human spirit using metaphors & themes. His work has recurring symbols including trumpets, harps, cups, water, bridges & birds.
David’s work hangs in private & corporate collections throughout Australia & Overseas.
‘Stand in front of colour so alive that it soothes the eyes in such a way that takes away the pain of bland existence. What if truth, what if beauty, what if poetry were possible to be contained in a story - in a canvas. Brush strokes guided by the deepest desire for passion that transcends all that is physically possible. Paint like liquid flows across the surface of the plain that is canvas. Never has so rich a colour yielded such fragrance’. (Quote by Steve Austin- ABC Radio)
