Hello, I’m David.

I’m a self-taught artist, despite the art degree. It’s life that taught me to really look, and to keep evolving how I make art.

In my current art, I explore nature and the sublime. Not just as an idea, but as a visceral experience, where awe and beauty meet vastness, danger, even unease. It’s the pulse of a storm, the stillness of a forest, the silence before something shifts. I work in layers of bold color, gestural marks, and translucent texture to evoke depth and motion.

My relationship with digital image-making began in 1981, in the computer graphics lab at Northern Illinois University, at a time when Apple II computers were only beginning to enter art departments. I explored pattern, repetition, surface, and image construction through BASIC programming, video, and dot matrix output. My work from that period was published in U&lc magazine and shown at Harvard Computer Graphics Week.

Today, my process combines digital immediacy with traditional tactility: I begin on the iPad, then build on canvas with ink, paint, and physical media. The result is both atmospheric and raw.

I want my work to stir something elemental. To invite wonder, but also to remind us how powerful and unpredictable the natural world, and our emotional landscapes, can be. If my paintings make you pause, feel something deeper, or see the world with fresh eyes, then they’re doing their job.