David’s obsession with painting started at a very young age, when he would record television cartoons and pause them to copy the images from the screen. His work is a glorious medley of influences, taking inspiration from comic books (in particular the art of Robert Crumb and Jamie Hewlett), board games, maps, childhood memories, travel, comedy, Keith Haring, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg and the Ancient Egyptians, who David believes are the greatest artists that ever lived. Graffiti also had a fundamental impact on David – “I’ve always loved street aesthetics. As a child I was fascinated with graffiti: it’s naughty, it’s anonymous, it’s as if superheroes came and painted walls in the night while you were sleeping. There is now a history and tradition that goes with graffiti, a set of rules to follow or break.” Creatively, David equates the process of creating art to that of creating music, a comparison he’s qualified to make as the former lead singer of The Moby Dicks. “Making an artwork in the studio is like a musician recording an album, whereas painting a massive wall is more like performing to thousands of people at a festival. That energy, immediacy and the challenge of painting bigger and bolder pieces all the time is what I love most.” According to the artist Jaybo Monk, “David is a mind-adventurer, where the left half of the brain explores the right one, showing us that very often we have the best conversations with ourselves.” David’s work has been exhibited internationally and his murals can be seen on the streets of London, Japan, China, Holland, New York, Berlin and Istanbul.