In a few days time, a former Adelaide banker will use pastels to draw a graffiti art house in front of this year's SALA Festival visitors. David James, formerly revered as David Stokes in the world of banking, can be seen drawing live at the opening of the ART LOGIC Amherst Gallery 'Outdoor Art' exhibition on 16th August from 2-5pm. The exhibition continues from 17-23rd August 2009, 2-5pm, at 62 Amherst Avenue Trinity Gardens (9 min from Adelaide's CBD).
At the end of July 2009, after a 40 year career in banking, David put aside his pens and spreadsheets to pick up pencils, oils, drawing sheets and canvases. Now as an artist, David James is a creative illustrator with a passion for character homes and historic buildings.
David enjoys drawing his client's own homes or that of their family members. "Homes reflect their owners' personalities. My work captures the personality of the home and the owner". He works with ink, pencil, charcoal, pastels and watercolour. "It depends on the subject and the client's taste".
David has only had limited formal art training and feels strongly that this poses no real disadvantage. As a banker he observed that many very successful business people lacked formal education. David explains, "I think the lack of an educational discipline leaves a person free of restraint and with a passion for just getting out there and doing it." Now David has time to also indulge in his passion for large oils with dreamlike themes.
Jacqueline Mitchell, ART LOGIC'S Outdoor Art exhibition curator, has brought together 18 different artists for this year's SALA Festival. "Art is about fun, quality and innovation for me." she says. "This exhibition proves that there is some great artistic talent in South Australia. It has stunning sculptures in bronze, steel, concrete, plaster and bamboo; fun outdoor mobiles made of translucent, coloured Plexiglas and indoor art works I'd qualify as seductive, sassy and satiric." For more information contact ART LOGIC at www.artlogic.com.au, info@artlogic.com.au or 0432 924 305.
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