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- David Ashley
- 5 Viscount Court
- Thornlie
- Western Australia 6108
- AUSTRALIA
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- Phone: 09 4591176
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- I was born in Liverpool, England, in 1961. At the age of nine I moved to Australia with my family and
- have lived here ever since.
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- My fascination with art started from an early age and I would happily spend the cold winter days indoors
- drawing away the hours.
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- When I was eight years old, I met a friend of the family, an old man who would take a postcard, copy it,
- and paint it on a large canvas. They were stunning, yet he was not completely satisfied with his work.
- The reason being, he told me, was that he had copied them and that a real artist should be original in his
- work. Since that day I have always tried to create something new and original.
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- Another reason I have stuck with fantasy art and science is that, whether people like it or not, they spend
- more time looking at them than they would at conventional art.
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- When they see the art, they draw their own conclusion of what the paintings depict and this lets their own
- imagination take control. When they look at a painting of, say, a bowl of fruit, all they see is a bowl of
- fruit. But when they actually stop and stare at your work, and you know their imagination is running
- wild, then to me as an artist, I am satisfied.
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