Arts
MASTER OF THE arts
By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Yanni
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ount Martha artist David Glyn Davies draws, paints, sculpts, is a stone mason and makes and restores leadlight and stained glass. Born in Essex, England, to parents who loved orchestral music and the arts, he says ‘interesting family holidays’ likely influenced his becoming an artist.
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November 2022
When David was 16, on one family holiday, they visited The Louvre. He was so struck by Theodore Gericault’s The Raft of the Medusa, he turned to his parents and said, “I’m going to be an artist.” They laughed, but art has been the mainstay of his life ever since. continued page 24