Born 1953
University of Manitoba -Bachelor of Fine Art
David was born in central Canada to a lively family of designers, actors and doctors who delighted in introducing him to the arts. He spent much of youth outdoors, surrounded by an endless prairie horizon and a clear, often very cold, blue sky.
Currently he has a successful career as a vibrant, versatile and innovative freelance visual artist working in photography, illustration and painting.
His artwork has been shown in a number of Canadian exhibitions and is held in both private and public collections. Recently, he was commissioned by PEPSI Co. to paint a series of executive portraits of the “founding fathers” for their executive offices.
David’s revealing and energetic photographs have appeared in a number of local and international publications and are also in several public and private collections. Currently he is an associate photographer with one of Canada’s top photography studios.
David could be considered as an abstract- expressionist painter. There is the characteristic tension between form and content and the use of the formal elements to suggest the drama and dance of emotion. Stylistically his work is deconstructed, “almost” realistic but remains best as an expression of abstract impressions. The formal elements, the sensual joys of color and line and texture interplay with the iconic symbols of nature painting. Like an allegory for life the work is built on the overlapping of layers of meaning, there is movement and change pointing to an ecology in turmoil and an environment in constant transformation. We can see the influence of French Impressionism, Canada’s Group of Seven, J.W. Turner and maybe De Kooning.
This series of paintings, “ATMOSHERES” comes from a larger series of landscape studies, an extension of, and possibly a reaction to, traditional landscape painting. They remain as attempts to capture evidence of the ephemeral phenomena of our environment that reflection and shimmer from the void of nature. And in the end there is always the search to make something extraordinary.
