Self-taught painter and sculptor, born at Abertridwr, near Caerphilly, South Wales. He was brought up on a farm, left school at 13 to work on a farm and became a ploughing and hedging champion. After five years in Canada, 1927–32, was an agricultural engineer, 1933–57, then a colliery engineer. Began painting in 1964, inspired by the biography of Sir John Millais by his son. David was a member of RCamA, also showing with NEAC, RA, SEA, at Royal National Eisteddfod and at Paris Salon, where he won gold and silver medals in the mid–1970s. WAC and National Museum of Wales hold his work, which was included in Miner-Artists: The Art of Welsh Coal Workers, National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, 2000. This demonstrated David’s antiquarian’s curiosity about the agricultural and industrial life of his valley, preserved in writing and a number of ambitious narrative pictures, such as his Grosfaen and Rhymney Valley Sagas.