Elected as WVAS President for a four-year term in April 2019, David has also acted as the Society’s exhibition secretary and is currently serving on the committee. David graduated with a Fine Art degree from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) in the 1970s. Following a career in magazine journalism and book publishing back in the UK, David is now retired and able to devote more time to his artwork.
“When painting, I alternate between periods of producing fairly traditional landscapes and others where the finished images are completely abstract. For the latter, I rarely have a finished image in mind, preferring to ‘build’ a picture with layers of colours and textures until I am satisfied that the balance is correct.
“For many years I have challenged myself to create visual equivalents to Brian Eno’s concept of ‘ambient music’, which puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structures or rhythms. My goal is to create an image where the viewer’s eye is continually engaged in movement because there is no focal point on which it can rest. For one ‘ambient’ series I have borrowed the Aboriginal dot painting technique to achieve a dense mix of colours.”
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