David’s approach is spontaneous, confident and nuanced, combining gestural mark-making, flowers and scribbling to produce a style that is uniquely his.
David Wilstermann is a self-taught artist who was born and raised in Ottawa where he currently lives and works with his wife and two kids. He has always been creative and enjoys making things from scratch. Encouraged by watching reruns of Bob Ross, Wilstermann started experimenting with paint. Since then, he’s learned different tricks and techniques through trial and error.
Wilstermann’s artistic style and approach have evolved over the years. He began with landscapes but has slowly moved towards a more abstract minimalist/modern style. Always inspired by nature, movement and texture, his newer work has a fresh organic feel. Wilstermann’s approach is spontaneous, confident and nuanced, combining gestural mark-making, flowers and scribbling to produce a style that is uniquely his.
Wilstermann spends his days working as a carpenter. Inspired by working with his hands, he often makes his own frames, stretches his own canvases and really enjoys the process of starting from the ground up. Painting on loose canvas on the floor of his studio allows him to make such dark bold marks with oil sticks and pastels. This brings a different perspective into the composition as the painting progresses, with new ideas revealing themselves. It’s very spur of the moment, whatever happens, happens style of painting.