The artist Easton in beautiful Rotterdam... his "second home".                                              
Photo: Joke Schott 2009

The artwork of New York resident Easton Davy is strongly influenced by the Afro American music culture. Using the exciting colors from his Cuban/Jamaican roots,Easton's scenes of love and pain, loss and redemption have much scope and depth. His original and visually enticing pieces draw wide recognition in artistic circles.

The playgrounds of New York City and distant melodies of the streets provided this artist his sense of art and visual language at an early age. The colors and cross-cultures of his Island roots and New York City life, show in his exciting works of art. Using an abstract expressionistic style, he continues to stretch the boundaries of what can be done with paint and the human figure. Not being bound by paint or brush, he seeks only to express himself the only way he knows how. With feeling.

Davy is also known for his ‘live painting’ of artists.  In 2004 Davy was present at the North Sea Jazz Festival to paint the Greg Osby Quartet. Later he painted live acts during events like NuMoonFest and the Rotterdam Museum Night. He also created a CD cover for Blue Note artist Greg Osby.

Easton Davy about his work:

 “Usually, when I approach the canvas I don’t know what’s going to happen. Feelings pour out in unpredictable ways and I just want to capture them before they get away. At that point the paintbrush may not be working fast enough, and I just start using my fingers or anything I can get my hands on. This is the point where I just have to express myself by any means and with anything close at hand. It’s as though the canvas has all these visions waiting for me to release, and I’m the messenger.”

The Philadelphia Daily News wrote this article about Easton in October of 2001:

IMMIGRANTS' SON THRIVES AS AN ARTIST.

By Anne R. Fabbri/ Philadelphia Daily News 2001

Easton Davy has the four most important ingredients for "making it" as an artist�talent, grit, innovation and a loyal patron. Add a heaping dose of a supportive. family 

"I always knew I was an artist. When I was 4 or 5 years old, I drew pictures of my father running for the bus,". Davy's career took off with jobs in Berkeley, Calif., and New York City, and time off in between to paint 24 hours a day. Now he works in all media, including silkscreen prints of famous jazz musicians from the past. Davy sells at art fairs, such as the one in Manayunk each spring. There, he met his patron, Adrian J. Moody, a noted Philadelphia attorney who began collecting his work. An art fair in Montclair and a follow-up Christmas card to collectors resulted in a call for some drawings for the National Basketball Association's publicity department. "When someone buys your work, they are buying a piece of you. You have to stay in touch," Davy said. "It always helps."

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