David Graff has had a circuitous, but creative route to his current status as an accomplished visual artist. Born in 1955 in Edson, Alberta and spending portions of his childhood in Inuvik, North West Territories and southern Alberta, he landed on the west coast in Vancouver in his early twenties. At this time, and until 1994, David’s creative energy was channeled into a lengthy career as a singer/songwriter, including a stint as a recording artist in Los Angeles in the 1980’s.

In the mid-90’s, the urge to expand into the visual arts led him to start his own faux finishing company. Through this, David has enjoyed considerable success with his highly sought after work on high-end residential and commercial projects in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Hong Kong, and China. His work on the lobby of the Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles won an Interior Design Institute Award in 2001, his contribution to a residential project in 1999 won the Gold Georgie Award for Best Overall Interior and his extensive work in a Shaughnessey, British Columbia residence will be showcased in an upcoming issue of Architectural Digest. It was in this arena that he honed his talent with the gilding medium, using the precious hammered metal leaf to create the equivalent of large scale art installations.

He began showing his Gilded Series in galleries in 2000, and has experienced a tremendous response to the unique and very original combination of old world craft and contemporary abstract expressionism. With his work being shown in a number of galleries in the United States and Canada, he increasingly continues to receive an enthusiastic reception with numerous commissions for private collectors as well as corporate clients such as Holt-Renfrew, Joey’s Restaurants in Edmonton and Kelowna, along with purchases by Intrawest Hotels in Nevada, Après Restaurant in Whistler, and use in numerous television shows and in the Will Smith movie, I Robot. David also counts private collectors in Los Angeles, Reno, Seattle, St. Louis, London, Vancouver, Montreal, Singapore, Mumbai, and Hong Kong among his patrons.