David Marsh Opus Studios 

About David Marsh

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Yorkshire born & bred and living in Leeds with my wife and English Springer Spaniel

 

At High school I had the good fortune to have some very inspirational art teachers who inspired me to follow a career in 'Art'

 

I enroled at Wakefield Art College, I completed a years foundation course and then settled on Graphic Design as my main subject. 4 fantastic years passed and I was out into the great wide world of advertising, were they ready for such a talented youth like me? well it turns out there were a lot of other talented youths out there as well!

 

Once into a commercial studio environment I quickly realised I actually needed to work but loved every minute gaining experience and learning different aspects of the trade. During this period I worked with a very talented illustrator, watching and learning I was drawing, painting and using an air-brush on a daily basis.

 

Life moves on and I needed a change, I took what I thought would be a temporary job with a mail order catalogue and stayed 15 years.  I was employed as a designer/art director, drawing fashion figures and going to some very exotic locations around the world with photographers and beautiful but often dizzy young models and all on expenses, a tough job but someone had to do it.

 

During this period I used a Lotus 7 for hill climbing and built a circuit race car with silhouette Lotus Europa body work. As I was drawing every day for a living I did very little painting at this time.

 

Eventually the opportunity arose for me to set up our my Graphic Design business ‘Opus Design’ in 1988.

With having a young family and running a new business spare time to paint was off the agenda.  Business is now well established and young son grown up and following in the family business. I have now found time to start painting again, I now find it  relaxing, rewarding and I love it.

 

After driving a Porsche for some years I decided it was time for a change so I bravely traded in my Porsche for a an old PUG and a 1971 Lotus  Elan Sprint in need of some TLC.  I am now torn between tinkering with the Elan and painting!!! What more could an old man want in life?