About Me
I was born in Plymouth, Devon, England in 1963. I have always been interested in art since school. I have lived and worked near the sea for all of my life and first moved to Cornwall in 1993.
Since then I have worked as a diver, a boat skipper as well as holding other roles including serving as a volunteer member of the St Ives crew on the lifeboat for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for several years.
I am a self taught artist now living and working in West Cornwall. I thrive on the escapism that painting delivers and I am endlessly inspired by everyday subjects that surround me. I experiment using a variety of mediums including watercolour, acrylics, oils, collage and fabric and whatever else I can find using a variety of surfaces. I am intrigued by both traditional and contemporary methods using both representative and semi abstract/abstract styles in my own David Stamp Art world.
This is a long journey for me and I am only really three years into it.. I have been privileged to have met some great people already during this journey who have inspired me including Kim Page, John Yardley, Arnold Lowrey as well as being inspired by some of the great artists such as Seago, Singer-Sargent and of course Edward Wesson.
I don't claim to know what I am doing! Sometimes it works for me and very often it does not. I find it best to leave it to the viewer to decide.
I was born in Plymouth, Devon, England in 1963. I have always been interested in art since school. I have lived and worked near the sea for all of my life and first moved to Cornwall in 1993.
Since then I have worked as a diver, a boat skipper as well as holding other roles including serving as a volunteer member of the St Ives crew on the lifeboat for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for several years.
I am a self taught artist now living and working in West Cornwall. I thrive on the escapism that painting delivers and I am endlessly inspired by everyday subjects that surround me. I experiment using a variety of mediums including watercolour, acrylics, oils, collage and fabric and whatever else I can find using a variety of surfaces. I am intrigued by both traditional and contemporary methods using both representative and semi abstract/abstract styles in my own David Stamp Art world.
This is a long journey for me and I am only really three years into it.. I have been privileged to have met some great people already during this journey who have inspired me including Kim Page, John Yardley, Arnold Lowrey as well as being inspired by some of the great artists such as Seago, Singer-Sargent and of course Edward Wesson.
I don't claim to know what I am doing! Sometimes it works for me and very often it does not. I find it best to leave it to the viewer to decide.