My Story -
Welcome to my website. My name is Lawrence Davis. I live and work in North Carolina but I got my start in Philadelphia. I have a fine art degree with a concentration in graphic design and a minor degree in printmaking from West Chester University. I spent my early career in graphic design and advertising. I’m definitely old school to be completely honest with you. I might be described as an analogue man living in a digital world. Fellow old time graphic designers and illustrators might remember the days of working at drafting tables, type-specking and using T-squares? I have worked in graphic design studios, newspapers, and have done freelance illustration work for years. My painting and illustration background draws heavily from “The Brandywine Valley School of Art” made famous from the world renowned Wyeth Family of artists located in the Brandywine Valley Region of Chester County Pennsylvania.
Our world and most of us in it are operating at a fast paced and breakneck speed. This seems only to increase year by year. Qualities of life valued in bygone eras seem to have been lost. Our world has become an impersonal one; indeed one which has become a throw-away society. The pride achieved by working hard with one's hands to build a stone structure, or a picket fence, or a barn; to craft a life with the sweat of one's brow; to see and feel the barren snow swept meadow as its winter winds envelope the country farm, to feel the chill of a moon drenched winter night, to gain an appreciation of the timeless things, the beauty of mother nature given to us by God; old things, the things of one's life - to be passed down generation-by-generation. I strive to capture appreciation of these things and these qualities in my paintings. These seemingly mundane things have the capacity to show us our common heritage and our common experience. Lives are lived, history is told, and experiences are sought through them, affording us all the chance to improve and further our relationships with our fellow man.
Today, I happily toil away in my little home studio. All of my work is hand done and original. You can see the three main disciplines of artwork which I produce here on the website – 1. original paintings and individual personal commissions just for you, 2. greeting cards (I’ll be adding these in the near future), 3. rustic handmade wooden signage created via pyrography (wood burned engraving).
- Lawrence (Larry) J. Davis