Featured Artist DAVID NAYLOR by Liz French


myself.. we lived in Andover, soon moved to Leeds, were we lived until I was four. My father was offered a job in what is now Zimbabwe and we all moved there. When I was six my parents divorced and my mother took my brother and me to Barcelona, Spain; where she was born.” It was a hard time for a single mother and when David was 14 she took her boys to London to study. Four years later they returned to Barce- lona where Naylor has been ever since.


This beauty was capture by artist, David Naylor of Barcelona, Spain. Naylor is a natural when it comes to portraits. With no formal artistic training he has developed his own style with the airbrush that result in what he describes as “clearly hyper realistic”. As a young boy Naylor remembers stopping at the window of a frame shop located between his school and home, “I remem- ber I always stared at the paintings exhibited....I started emulat- ing them in my school notebook and enjoying every minute of that intimate moment I had with art; finally, the owner invited me to do that every day inside his shop. That was really cool. I’ve always loved and admired classical oil paintings, especially by Diego Velazquez, Joquin Sorolla and Maria Fortuny...” It was influence of these that gave the young Naylor the realization that painting was what he wanted to do when he grew up. An- tonio Lopez and German born British painter Lucein Freud are others that Naylor greatly admires and influenced his art. Naylor was born in Andover, England, “my mother was a dancer and her dance company used to travel a lot. My father was in the military service in Cyprus and met his wife-to-be in Turkey, where her company was offering its art. They were married in Cyprus, moved to England and had two babies: my brother Richard and , after 18 months


Self taught, the artist has learned by trial and error “trying, insisting, observing, recreating other’s art and reading a lot” is how he describes his development.


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