ABSTRACT
David Dowries has become an artist: that simple statement masks a more than usually complex achievement. After a long period of professional study, beginning with a modest art-college introductory course and concluding in the most prestigious art academy in Britain, he has emerged as an innovative and powerful artist. The family's joint effort to develop David s speech skills was eventually successful, and from then on he began to revel in talking, in the longer term paradoxically developing a taste for excitable discourse as well as the kind of sharp ear for the sound of it which makes for a good mimic. The principal themes of earlier drawings - broad climatic country landscapes and dense architectural clustering - continued to appear in David's tenth, eleventh and twelfth years, at the time of his final year at primary school and first secondary years. The progress of David's drawing activities continued unabated, usually different in kind from his work in school.
