| David Roupell |
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David Roupell
Born - Bournemouth
I used to paint posters for my bording school dances, then psychedelic murals on club walls in London. Well, at least what I thought that word meant! Went on to do music, TV scriptwriting and landscaping. Back to art and music now and enjoying using modern tools. I note that most 'artists' around still think that 'art' means a brush and paint on canvas, ludites!
'When the power of love overcomes the love of power - the world will have peace.'
Jimi Hendrix
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| About the Artist |
'David Roupell is becoming known for the unique vision and the precise, crisp execution of his work.'
I felt good when I heard that. It was someone kindly speaking at the opening of an exhibition.
Creative inspiration? From anybody who creates anything one can get lost or found in.
So many...my parents took me to the Louvre and Palace of Versailles as a boy, I recall leaving quite stunned at the splendour, and then spending the next three weeks drawing pictures of Louis X1V furniture. We also went to that amazing Dutch gallery surrounded by a moat, the artworks in there were like photos,fabulous.
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Out The Window
Jan 2006 to June 2006 Digital on Canvas/Paper 69 X 52 |
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Jesus is walking out of his stained glass window. He has had enough. Seen too much insanity going on in his name. Is leaving the building for other living treasures to hang in.
Limited adition of 50. Each work signed, numbered and dated by the artist. |
Farewell Floyd
Jan 2005 to June 2006 Digital on Canvas/Paper 80 X 75cm |
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The mega band, Pink Floyd. This image contains 35 song images. A tribute to 40 years of music. Inspired by an article in La Parisienne magasine, David Gilmour was asked if there'd be another reunion...'No, this is the end for Pink Floyd.' I was struck by the terminal profundity of the comment, and felt rather sad about the passing of an icon.
Limited adition of 50. Each work signed, numbered and dated by the artist. |
Simsimella Tree
2006 digital on paper/canvas 100 X 100 |
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The great inspirer - and destroyer.
Limited adition of 50. Each work signed, numbered and dated by the artist. |
Storm over mountains
2006 Ink and brushes on paper 39 X 46 cm |
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We were sitting having a picnic by the lake, watching the storm break over the mountains. Then the strawberries kicked in and we thought we saw one take off like a rocket. We were traveling abroad at the time.
Limited adition of 50. Each work signed, numbered and dated by the artist. |
Spring
2006 digital on paper/canvas 80 X 80 cm |
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Spring flower bloom. As does our hope, for a few minutes.
Limited adition of 50. Each work signed, numbered and dated by the artist. |
Ice Age
2005 digital 60 X 35 |
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A magical world made of ice. Ah but global warming is changing all that.
Limited adition of 50. Each work signed, numbered and dated by the artist. |
Passengers of Time
2005/6 digital palette 91 X 95 |
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Transit passengers, that's all we are. Here today, gone tomorrow. Century by century everything changes and everything stays the same. Historical figures mix with fantasy figures, stealth bombers, soldiers, flowers, paving stones morphing into computers, daughters, grandson, Hussar on horse, Mongul warrior, Jesus, Sleeping Beauty, Harry Potter, Merlin the magician, market sellers, street traders, Napoleon and Josephine, these are some of the players in Passengers of Time.
Limited adition of 50. Each work signed, numbered and dated by the artist. |
Target Heartfin
2007 Digital Palette 70 X 50cm |
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Getting to the heart of the matter. Featuring Byron Bay and its many sides.
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Birds in Paradise
2007 Digital drawing 70 X 85 |
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Deliberately avoided tools to draw the curves, did them by hand as in the old days,giving the work an authentic, human, less than perfect finish. Lots of birds in this, can you see the peace dove? |
The Fight
2006 digital palette 60 X 42 |
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The Fight, to keep the heart strong in the face of so much mindless shallow twaddle. A constant battle. |
Oceana
2005/6 digital palette 70 X 52 |
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We live in a beautiful ocean of... |
Looking at the KIng
2005 Print on anything 60X42 |
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If life was a game of chess, we would basically focus on one person |
Returning
2006 photodigital artwork 66X55 |
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Wherever we go, we always return home. If we have one. The saucer here is returning deep into the jungle where it's occupants find the peace and solitude they need to deal with the rest of the garbage going on out there. |
Waiting for the wind
2007 Digital palette 105 X 75 |
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The ships are stuck in the magnificent hills of the quinkermarine gulf, waiting on the wind's return to their sails. |
Cafe
2006 Digital palette 100 X 70 |
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This is 'Ice Age' on the wall n a large silver frame behind the counter at the famed Dolphin Cafe in Brunswick Heads NSW. |
Dendy Cinema Byron Bay
2007 Digital pallette all different |
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This was the first exhibition in Byron Bay, at the lovely new Dendy cinema complex. |
Material Resource
2006 Digital palette 105 X 75 |
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One can see in this picture the earth's minerals being sucked out of the ground and turned into jewels and giant skyscrapers. For better or worse... |
Full Bloom
2005 digital artwork 65 X 49 |
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Full bloom of flowers, inside and outside the crystal sphere. |
Kushinna
2005 Digital palette 70 X 53 |
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The book of life, traveling through the ages. |
By any other name
2009 Digital pallette 60 X 60 |
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A Rose doesn't always look like a Rose. |
Climate Change
2007 Digital palette 105 X 75 |
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A beautiful garden, being ruined by greed and ignorance. Such is the stupidity of mankind. |
On the way home
2008 digital artwork any size you like |
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Innersense
2009 digital palette any size you like |
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an ugly man holding the silver egg of the dreams he will never have. 75% of the western world's male species. |
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| Education and biography |
Newells - Horsham Sussex
Wells House - Malvern Wells
Grenville College - Bideford
The Mill - Clymping Sussex
Worthing Art College
Goudhurst Detention Centre
Sydney Tafe College
Computer 'art' has a justifiably dubious reputation these days as people use software gimmickry to create images. For me Photoshop is a modern sophisticated palette with exciting possibilities. Used the same way as a normal palette (brushes+colour) artworks created with this digital tool often take just as long to complete as their brush on canvas cousins!
These artworks are owned and exhibited in Australia, USA, UK, Asia and Europe.
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| Future shows |
Interest in the images sees the options increasing. Prestige client base growing since Saatchi interest in 05.
Am active on the internet, several sites have my images. Here's one. http://david-roupell.busythumbs.com/
Future?......Well, there's every chance one could die penniless and unrecognised until great great grandchildren discover a room full of dusty works and present them as priceless antiques to a stunned world. They will make gazzillions and spend the rest of their lives driving all over the universe on holidays with their extended families in the latest luxury 12 seater personal space shuttles.
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