Largely self taught, but born into a family of artists, magicians and tailors, David was raised on oil paint, Singer sewing machines and sleight of hand.

 

He’s been a collage maker and a mixed media painter from the age of seven. With scissors in hand he says he still enjoys that same satisfaction from the process of cutting a shape / positioning the piece / applying glue / adding pressure and rubbing it down.

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Over sixty years of cut and paste and still not done, a lifetime of fastening the world together...

 

Using muted, often quiet colours, through which he suggests certain objects ( for example containers, tents,

flags, tools ), David works to set down the