Painter, muralist and installations artist, born in Plymouth, Devon, who gained a fine art honours degree at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1982–5. He won a South West Project Art Award in 1988; a South West Arts Marketing Grant in 1989; and a three-month studio placement award with Delfina Studios Trust, Bristol, in 1993. In 1989 he carried out a mural for Television South West, followed in 1995 by murals for Exeter City Council. Group shows included Laing Landscape and Seascape Painting, at Pelter Sands Gallery, Bristol, where he was a prize winner in 1990 (he won the South West Regional Prize in 1994); Gordon Hepworth Gallery, Newton St Cyres, from 1991; and High Point Fair, North Carolina, America, 1996. Solo exhibitions included Gallery Gilbert, Dorchester, 1997 (where he was incorrectly listed as David Ralph-Simpson), and Oliver Contemporary, 2005.