David Body was born in Twickenham, England. He studied illustration at Twickenham College and then worked in various London advertising agencies and design studios for ten years before moving to Scotland Read more
in 1977.
David Body spent the next thirty years as a potter creating ceramic art pieces from his studio. In 2004 he decided to become a full time painter. He is primarily a landscape painter who is particularly inspired by the highlands of Scotland and more recently Italy.
David's training as an illustrator and working in London as a graphic designer has probably had the biggest influence on his art works. As a painter he paints naturalistically and in more colourist abstract styles. His images have evolved over the years and are now more graphic in appearance.