He shared that his themes are similar in his photography and painting practices – poignant concerns for the environment, landscape, and abstraction.īelow is a conversation from a follow-up email exchange after our time together in Sausalito. We sipped coffee surrounded by his lovely creations inside the historic walls of Headlands Center for the Arts.ĭavid discussed his personal history, art techniques, and world affairs that influenced his compositions. I witnessed his artistic transition from photographs to paintings in person. During the initial quarantine, local and globally-celebrated aerial photographer and friend David Maisel began experimenting with large scale paintings in a studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a magnificent space in the Marin Headlands of Golden Gate National Recreation Area that offers residency programs for international artists in need of the gift of time and space for their creative process.īefore the holidays in December, I visited David in his new studio when he was in his third month of being engrossed in his new practice.

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