Sharing
David Chapple
Throughout his years as a fine artist, David Chapple has created and mastered a number of genres, all influenced by his interests and life experiences with horses, cowboys, Native Americans and truck drivers. The peripatetic visionary, who currently lives in Oregon, has traveled across the United States many times and lived in Salt Lake City and Chicago and in England.
Chapple also reveres the sea and the colorful, majestic marine life he encounters while sailing and snorkeling in far-flung locales. “The Caribbean and Mexico have left their mark [on my work],” he advises.
So have Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands, in Washington, where Chapple draws inspiration from the magnificent whales. “The surface of the ocean is a thin border between two amazing worlds,” enthuses this eco-conscious sailor. “Whales are always a big surprise. The whole wild footprint up here is awesome. But it is a fragile, balanced thing that needs our care.”
Like much of Chapple’s newer work, Sharing is an acrylic painting on cutout relief panels. “I put a float frame behind the panel,” he explains. “The effect is three-dimensional, with its shadows behind it on the wall.”
View the artist’s portfolio at David-Chapple.ArtistWebsites.com.
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