David Roupell

David Roupell
Born - Bournemouth

I used to paint posters for my bording school dances, then psychedelic murals on club walls in London. Well, at least what I thought that word meant! Went on to do music, TV scriptwriting and landscaping. Back to art and music now and enjoying using modern tools.

'When the power of love overcomes the love of power - the world will have peace.'
Jimi Hendrix

Creative inspiration? From anybody who creates anything one can get lost or found in.
So many...my parents took me to the Louvre and Palace of Versailles as a boy, I recall leaving stunned at the splendour, and then spending the next three weeks drawing pictures of Louis X1V furniture. We also went to that amazing Dutch gallery surrounded by a moat, the artworks in there were like photos, fabulous. Art can take the viewer into an irresistible world, whether familiar or new.

Newells - Horsham Sussex
Wells House - Malvern Wells
Grenville College - Bideford
The Mill - Clymping Sussex
Worthing Art College
Goudhurst Detention Centre
Sydney Tafe College

Computer 'art' has a justifiably dubious reputation these days as people use software gimmickry to create images. For me Photoshop is a modern sophisticated palette with exciting possibilities. Used the same way as a normal palette (brushes+colour) artworks created with this digital tool often take just as long to complete as their brush on canvas cousins!

These artworks are owned and exhibited in Australia, USA, UK, Asia and Europe.


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