Hello I'm Dave 

    My practice is rooted in observation. Working in oil, watercolor, and charcoal, I record people, places, and moments that interrupt my ordinary movement through the world and compel me to look again. Light is often the organizing force in my work: it reveals unexpected color, alters familiar surroundings, and gives atmosphere and presence to a subject.

I am drawn to loose, painterly handling and the economy of a bravura approach. I search for the essential relationships of shape, value, color, and gesture that allow a subject to emerge. 

Painting, for me, is a form of visual recording. Each work preserves both an encounter and the act of perceiving it. Through sustained observation, I aim to transform direct experience into an image that retains the immediacy, atmosphere, and presence of the original moment.