A book of drawings, photographs and extracts from sketchbooks and journals.
This book, published by Nowhere North contains a series of short essays to accompany David’s works and an extract of an interview with Gavin Ambrose, with David about his work which later led to a collaboration in the form of a book that was published at Unseen Sketchbooks. The title of this small format book, ‘Everything starts is a sketchbook’ looked at how David uses the sketchbook as a process of exploring, recording and attempting to understand the world, or worlds, we inhabit.
Published in 2021.
Colour, perfect bound.
22 cm x 17cm
David’s folk inspired work depicts human faces, eyes, charachters and other mystical symbols. Often combined together in bright colours to create a psychedelic visual treat . Done in epic scales, wrapping buildings and walls around the world – His murals bring together the same sense of joy, adventure and curiosity that can be seen surrounding Davids life.
These re-occurring motifs can be seen throughout his practise. He believes the head to be the most important part of the body because “everything happens there” and that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Brought together with other seemingly random words and symbols Davids paintings provide a unique and glorious vision of our world.