DAVID EUSTACEDavid Eustace was born in 1950.When he was 21, he returned to education. He completed a Foundation course at Sutton Coldfield Art College,& a degree course in Fine Art at Exeter College of Art. He later went on to Leicester Polytechnic in 1976 and trained as a teacher.After graduating, David spent six years in the USA working as a muralist. He returned to the UK in 86 & earned his living as a painter and musician - for 25 years he was the drummer in the blues band ‘Junkyard Angels’. David plays with the viewers of his figurative painting, using images that hover between conscious and subconscious states. Eustace mixes wit and mysticism. In his view, painting is like music. Often the artist or composer intends to form a beginning, middle and an end but finds himself drawn off in a different direction to make his creation look or sound ‘right’. It is, he says, a philosophical experience, which is “easier felt than telt.” Eustace observes the everyday world around him but presents it with an individual style and viewpoint. Subjects are sometimes dislocated from their surroundings or hover lending an air of mystery. There is a three-dimensional dream-like quality to his contemporary art. Painting with acrylic on board David overlays this with a light oil glaze to enhance depth and colours. David was awarded membership of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2003 and in the same year was the winner of the RBA David Wolfers Memorial Prize. |
