Meeting David Trevelyan-"The Monster That Ate Ubud".

I had a great visit from a Canadian artist presently residing in Bali a sculptor by the name of David T.David is an extraordinary individual with allot of humor and creativity. I met this gentleman at the opening of his group show at the AWAS Gallery last week.   David Trevelyan along with his friend C. Newman co authored the book , "The Monster that ate Ubud." 

David Trevelyan was born and spent his formative years in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In a family of four brothers and one sister, David was the rebellious one. He grew up in an active, fun loving environment. Whilst attending art school in Calgary, Alberta, David's interest in Native arts and culture and Eastern philosophy awakened. He moved to British Columbia, was smitten by the masks of the North Western Native peoples. David returned to Canada to begin his own commercial design company where he was Art Director for ten years. Burned out with commercial art, David started to explore S.E. Asia, first Thailand and then Ubud, Bali, where he first met Newmi. David began to produce wild sculptures at his new studio near Ubud. In the mid- to late 1990s, David began to experiment with digital photography, computer manipulated images and cyber arts. David now lives with his wife Rani just outside Ubud, where he continues to explore innovative contemporary expressions as an artist. These include hanging out with his buddy Newmi and co-creating all that is way fung and too shoe.

David has ideas about how to showcase our works together  in the form of a humorous  take on , Luck. I am still pondering on how i would spin it off with my Cheeseburger Buddha Character as the purveyor of the message.

I hope that our chance meeting will turn into be a long and lasting friendship as i like his energy and genuineness and his no holds barred kind of approach to life as an artist. But I will not hold my breadth as many such promising has passed my way and most were just that which to me is fine. What is great is that our paths crossed and out of that we learned of respect and what it it entails in this Global life.

David is poet when it comes to shaping wood into pieces of art works.  His being in Bali no doubt is a boon to those who work with him and he with them. he takes the sculpture in wood to greater heights in its unique form and style which breaks away from the monotonous designs found among Balinese sculpture artist.

Ulright? A Swiss traveler who lives in Thailand joined  David and i at our table for a drink and he turned out to be just another interesting character with stories to tell of his earlier life in Switzerland and now his life in Thailand.

If things do really materialize between us I am positive it would  take on a whole new dimension I have no doubt as i can sense that our chemistry is dynamic and we can make things happen. In the meantime i will have to wait and see what he has in mind while i develop my own version of what he has in mind with the 'LUCK' project.