David Mellows
David Mellows is a Western Australian descended from first settlers and grew up with the basic instruction of get a real job. This meant leaving the arts and design aside while doing the regular 40hours and five days. a long time as a key player in the drag racing scene of the west. Being Meeting Director or state correspondant for the national press of the sport did not satisfy completely and when a few dollars became available a racing bike was built. Director David Mellows trained as an artist after the effects of a motorcycle accident 27 years ago. A successful painter and printmaker with critical acclaim he arrived from Perth and has proceeded to explore the workings of Melbourne life and architecture. He has been received with great popularity. The most satisfaction the artist gets is from hearing the buyers’ narrative, how they saw themselves in the painting. These tales are of the continuing reality of life, which is what the paintings are to the artist.