David II

David is a Canadian living and creating in Southern California. He is equal parts artist and surfer - each day is devoted to surf and making art. He is extremely passionate about both practices, which seem to feed each other. David’s medium is large format collage.

Each original piece is cut and assembled by hand on custom baltic birch panels that he builds in his studio. Loving color, the imagery he creates tends to be happy and uplifting while using allegory and mythology to tell cautionary tales about consumerism, consumption, and the human condition. He repackages the beauty that he finds in the world to tell a new story and considers himself a curator of lost images. In fact, some of the flowers that show up in many of his pieces are the first time that particular flower was printed in a book.

David’s techniques are ever-evolving and progressive, combining new methods. He favors a digital-to-analog process that begins in photoshop, where he sketches a kind of maquette that becomes his guide to create the final hand-cut collage. He prints the full collage to any scale, cuts all of the layers by hand, then reassembles and glues them onto his panels. A coat of resin seals the work and adds dimension. David tailors his work throughout each series for collectors and clients, making each commission special and unique.