David Wyatt

This article is about the English artist. For the American historian, see David K. Wyatt.

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

Davit Wyatt (Born 28 November 1968) is an English commercial artist. Born in Northampton, he was adopted and raised in West Sussex. As a child, he learnt to play the piano; however, his interest in reading and drawing combined into a love of comics.

At 16, he attended art college in Reading, and obtained his first work doing the occasional page for British comic 2000 AD. He signed on for a further year at college, but left just two weeks later.

Whilst having some menial jobs, he worked on his portfolio, practiced guitar and played in bands. He created the occasional cover commissions, but was just as keen to make a career in music. After an unsuccessful band tour of Scandinavia, he decided that the rock and roll lifestyle wasn’t for him, and moved to Dartmoor to concentrate on illustration.

Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean

David has tried most media at some point (collage, acrylics, sculpture, thick paint, thin paint), but now mainly produce work on an Apple Mac. The Dartmoor landscape provides inspiration; otherwise his ideas come from everywhere - "watching a film, walking round Sydney Opera house, the dog pulling a stupid face; anything."

He has illustrated authors including J. R. R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Geraldine McCaughrean, Philip Pullman, Terry Deary and Brian Jacques. David is the illustrator of Larklight, Starcross and Mothstorm by Philip Reeve. He has also worked on a number of album covers, computer games, beer labels and stamps.

He now lives in Devon, in a market town on Dartmoor. He is a keen lutist, cyclist and wanderer of the moors.^[1]

References

1. ^ Amazon "Larklight (Paperback)", Amazon.com, 2009-02-25. Retrieved on 2009-02-25.

External links

• http://www.david.wyatt.btinternet.co.uk/pages/web.html Homepage
• http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=9170 Biography on Bloomsbury Publishing
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0192728350 Peter Pan in Scarlet "look inside", amazon.co.uk

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