DAVID GOLDING

, 80

SEAFORD, United Kingdom

About the Artist
In 1972 I immigrated to Yugoslavia. I had always had a flair for painting and drawing and started to paint on canvas for a year or two until I discovered the technique of reverse oil painting on glass. I became fascinated with this technique and studied it in Zagreb while visiting some of the more famous Croatian naïve artists such as Mijo Kovacic, Ivan Generalic and Ivan Lackovic who lived just outside Zagreb. I studied their individual techniques and over a year or two perfected my own style. returned to Britain just before the start of the Balkans' War and had my first exhibition in Highgate Village, London in 1985. I kept my job in architecture to pay the bills but continued painting oil on glass to satisfy my need to express myself.