Dave'S Daughter

I am the daughter of lifelong professional artist, David C. Smee. My role here is to curate and represent my Father's artwork.
Born in Cambridge, England, two years before the outbreak of World War 2, some of Dave's earliest memories are of the nightly bombing raids of the 1940 blitz and of going to school as a child equipped with his trusty book satchel and gas mask, walking past homes "opened up like dollhouses." Nonetheless, Dave had a happy and relatively carefree childhood growing up in the working class terraces of his hometown. At age 11, Dave won a scholarship to grammar school and later attended Cambridge College of Art majoring in illustration. Dave started working for book publishers, newspapers and magazines and by the 1970's had not only won Shell Corporation's Poster Prize but also had work published in Designers in Britain and The Association of Illustrators First Annual.
During the eighties and early nineties Dave built a reputation as a portraitist and caricaturist, carrying out many private commissions including those of the original cast of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Les Miserables and of cast members of Phantom of the Opera.
Dave moved to the United States in 1994 and settled in Las Vegas w...

Sherwood Artweek, Nottingham On Saturday 22nd June, 11am- 5pm at Sherwood United Reformed Church,
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