A free spirit of the sixties
David Schreiber is an architect who took up painting in retirement. which has "Encore Career".
David Schreiber, an architect who picked up painting in retirement, has turned it into his ‘Encore Career’.
With a life dedicated to design and creativity, including his last 13 years as Chief Architect for the Forte Hotel Group, he now has the freedom to chase his passions.
In retirement, he picked up a paintbrush for the first time since his school days and started with traditional subjects like scenes, portraits and animals. While these subjects challenged his painting skills, they didn’t really give him enough mental stimulation or make a big splash in the art world. So, he decided to use his strengths and his love of architecture and design by painting and drawing subjects that needed creative thinking, careful consideration and composition.
His first series in this way was his ‘Retro’ paintings, which brought back memories of a time in our shared history. He took old images, recreated old scenes into new arrangements and filled them with monochrome figures. Each image also included a small map or ‘location plan’, a common feature in many architects’ drawings.
A Second series was more abstract. Maps that are now easily available online, along with satellite mapping and 3D capabilities, became another source of inspiration. These became the foundation for his "Architectural Abstracts". A combination of paintings and drawings, that led him into more obscure territory, creating abstract compositions. A mix of architectural elements and cartography creates unique abstracts that feel like they belong to a specific place.
The variety of his work is now encapsulated in his art magazines and other publications. He enjoys sketching in ink and continues to explore other ways of expressing architecture in art by adding words and text within the images. This has expanded further as he now creates a backstory to each painting in the form of poetry. The words and pictures make a perfect combination for his Art Cards.
Having now been retired for over 25 years, his exploration of subjects and techniques has expanded significantly. His free spirit continues, but is now focused on creating the Art that he enjoys. So, check out his many "Galleries", and enjoy the ride!
If anything you see is of interest, he would love to hear from you.
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