We caught up with the brilliant and insightful David Mueller a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

David, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today When did you first know you wanted to pursue a creative/artistic path professionally?

Even in grade school. I probably had my paintings hanging in the school hallway.. My mother was a craft’s person. My father was an artist and my uncle was an artist. In my senior year in high school. I attended a vocational school connected with my high school. We’re 43 periods a day I studied commercial art. It was perhaps here where I knew that I was more serious about looking at art. As a career.

I attended community college for 2 years after high school to make up for a not so great effort in high school academics.. I studied art and environmental science To see which spoke to me more clearly. After two years there was no question that it was art.

I then searched for and found great art school To pursue further studies in art. The American Academy of art in Chicago is where I landed. And I could not have made a better choice.

David, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I call my work “Painterly realism”.

From an appropriate viewing distance. My work’s look very real yet. They include loose brush work and medium refined brushwork to the periphery of the main focus.. I believe we see the world in this way.

I like paintings to be about brush work. Brush jokes and surface as much as creating the illusion of reality of three dimensions on a two dimensional surface..

I want my work to have a timeless feel to it and a quality that also stands to test of time period My work has a somewhat historical field yet. I think it also has a modern twist to it in composition and aesthetics..

My work is not about profound deep metaphors in meanings of multilayers
Of messages. It is rather more about simple beauty. My work is about sharing the beauty in the aesthetics that I see around me in many forms every single day.. Yes, sometimes there is a story, but there’s also enough simplicity where viewers can bring their own story to the painting..

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

During world war two, winston churchill kept money in the british budget even during the height of the bombing of london. He believed that if you took the arts away the culture away from the people. What did they have to live for in fight for?.

I believe that what I do is a “gift” (one thirrd of a mixture of extremely hard work and perceverance) with which I should be doing something of value.

The title of my yet unwritten book is “it chooses you”. I believe I have no choice and have been put here to do what I do so that people understand that humans are about such things, above and beyond money or business
In that are world this filled with so much beauty. It is right before our eyes each and every day.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

There are many times where I’ve pictured myself. Hanging from my fingernails from a cliff. And I simply sometimes just want to let go. Meaning that I simply sometimes just want to go find a day job.

Each time this happens, someone reaches down and pulls my arms and me safely back up on top of the mountain.. They seem to want me to keep doing what I do.

This year is a perfect example. The springtime was a very, very challenging time in my art career with no commissions. No sales and no responses from anyone that I reached out to for art.business.

Then out of the blue. I was contacted about one portrait commission, which led to a significant series of work from 1 client in addition to sales from galleries in addition to awards and recognition at a high level, including monetary prizes..

In only a thirty day period of time, it turns one hundred eighty degrees in the opposite direction..

It was just one more reminder that I have to have significant perseverance. That people who enjoy art need to show support artists so they can continue doing what their mission.

And that indeed …art has chosen me.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.davidmuellerfineart.com
• Linkedin: David Mueller Fine artist
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