David was born in the mining town of Workington, Cumbria, growing up on the coastal plain between the Irish Sea and the English Lake District – a bleak area of dark sandstone architecture and heavy rainfall.

His paintings explore a twilight zone of memory. Canvases peopled by blurred figures rescued from the past, staring back at the viewer like so many statues of antiquity, contemplating eternity.

Much of his darker toned work is tenebristic in style, contrasting the dominant sombre palette with flashes of light to great dramatic effect.

It has been said that art is the moment between a question and the answer, and this is where we find David’s paintings.