David Swanagin, a Nashville transplant from Augusta, Georgia and the Low Country in South Carolina, came by his intense interest in landscapes and still lifes honestly and directly. As a self-taught artist, Swanagin early on spent a lot of time in a trial and error approach to oil painting. He quickly established his own contemporary version of traditional landscapes and still lifes. He has been on client-sponsored painting trips to Ireland, Italy and France, and has produced many new works shown in galleries and exhibitions, plus a number of special commissions. A real Renaissance man, Swanagin is also a very successful drummer who tours constantly and uses photographs from his road trips for paintings in the studio later.
