David in Mizuo
For me, painting is not an escape. It is an encounter.
Between two poles that inhabit me:
the rational and the emotional,
tension and calming,
the storm and the inner calm.
My paintings last throughout the day.
They evolve with the light, changing according to the time of day, the angle, and the person looking at them.
Like me, like us.
David has long worked in a structured, demanding environment governed by performance and control. Trained in the world of tech and finance, he has built a career marked by strong professional success.
An investment banker, start-up founder, creator and manager of several companies, he experienced high responsibilities, constant pressure and the intensity of demanding environments very early on.
This journey, as solid as it is demanding, gradually leads him to reach the limits of a model solely focused on performance.
Periods of profound fatigue become signals. Not abrupt breaks, but successive realizations. The need to slow down, to refocus, to find a more balanced path becomes essential, without ever denying what has been built.
It was at the age of 44 that painting entered his life. An almost silent, intimate encounter. The discovery of epoxy resin opened up a new space: a personal territory, outside the professional sphere, where the gesture soothes as much as it engages.
Painting becomes a place of letting go, while maintaining a demand for precision, control and balance. David works with materials, mixtures, exposure time, and colors, in a constant search for accuracy.
Today, he no longer separates his worlds.
His professional background in finance and his artistic work coexist naturally, in the same trajectory, guided by authenticity rather than posturing.
I am not trying to convince. I am trying to share. This work is a stripping bare.
A space where my two parts finally exist together.
And if, on the other side, someone finds an echo in it, then the journey is a success.
This coexistence gives rise to a deliberate question: how to be an artist in the face of those who have always known him as a businessman? How to remain true to his professional path while allowing another form of expression to emerge?
David chooses not to make a decision. He rejects fixed labels, preferring to move forward in a fertile middle ground, where rigor and freedom can coexist.
His artistic stance is clear: to create out of inner necessity, not in search of recognition. Painting is not a role to assume, but a natural extension of who he is.
A way of showing oneself without a mask, without an avatar, letting the work speak for itself, independently of the path that preceded it.
Rooted in nature, the sea, the woods, the light of a sunset, his world invites a return to serenity. A calm that comes after the storm.
David moves forward step by step, without pressure to achieve results, in a sincere approach where each creation is an attempt at balance between control and letting go, demandingness and gentleness.
What he wishes to leave behind is not a speech, but a feeling:
"To have contributed something, to have brought forth a different space within the other."
