About Me

My name is David King. I am an artist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Canada's Atlantic coast. I was born in the Canadian province of Newfoundland in 1971. As a child my favourite thing to do was to build things with lego (actually I still build things with them when I'm not painting).

I like to create many themes of art but this website is specifically for my animal art which turns out to be mostly dogs.

About My Paintings

For me, the main reason to paint is to discover new things. The activity of painting must not have a fully known result or it becomes uninteresting. Even within my typically more organized designs, there is much room throughout the whole process for discovery. I am a fan of the   "variation on a theme" ideal and enjoy comparing old photos of my works which share the same theme just to see how that same theme can be totally unique each time (this is also the inspiration behind making my slide-shows in the "Fun Stuff" section).

Over the last 15 years or so of selling my paintings, I have had my creations carried off to distant places around the world. They are somewhere out there adorning walls in many places within Canada and the United States, England, Ireland, Iceland, Germany, Malta, Singapore, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. So far I have sold many hundreds of my canvas paintings and over 1500 of my smaller ink and watercolour paintings and characatures.

I would like to thank all of the people from various locations for their support of what I do.  I enjoy the fact that people get something out of my work and I hope to have my paintings reach many more people in the coming years.