About
Hi, my name is Dave
It was on visits to my grandparents' house that I first became interested in pictures. They had a small collection of toys from the 1930s, and even just the strange muted colours on the covers of the boxes seemed somehow exotic. Very different from the brash primary colours of my own time. Travelling from our inner city street to the suburbs seemed like an adventure in itself, but these artifacts sparked a lifelong interest in early 20th century illustration and design.
My favourite was a large tin tray that opened out into a countryside landscape, complete with small hills and printed scenery. A clockwork train placed on it would speed from one side of it and then back again, alternately picking up and dumping a small metal tube, designed to look like industrial piping.
It was many years later before I realised that the box and the tin toy were printed using the same technique - lithography. I eventually taught myself the process and and ended up using and owning several of the machines - both small and large. It grew into a real love for poster art.
I had always drawn - first in pencil and then in pen and ink. Later, I graduated to paint, but never enjoyed it. I travelled a fair bit - in England and central Europe ... looking for my El Dorado. It was when I moved into maybe my 20th place, that it suddenly struck me to put up pictures. I had decorated, but there was still some bits of wall I didn't like. Rather than get into plastering, I decided to do it for myself - create pictures for walls. I had done photomontage many times in the past - proper cut and paste with craft knives, glue and discarded illustration books, for friends who had needed gig posters, fanzine art and flyers and I thought - maybe there's other people out there, too - folks with those annoying bits of spaces, who, like me, find it hard to find interesting, inventive new art to fill it.
So here I am ... making pictures, full time. Watching strange old movies, reading weird old books, going for the odd wander and planning trips I'll probably never take any more.
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You can check out my blog here - New Wave Publishing blog
and my other two sites:
Various print designs - NewWavePosters.com
Art prints - New Wave Posters at Artspan.com