Visual Artist. Storyteller. Explorer. `#chasingthecreative
Hello, I’m David Priestley — a visual artist based in Portsmouth, England, working across photography, abstraction, and visual storytelling.
I picked up my first camera at six on a family holiday, and I’ve been chasing the creative ever since. What began with simple snapshots has grown into a body of work that blurs boundaries — between stillness and motion, photography and painting, documentation and dream.
My images are shaped by a simple instinct: to pause, to notice, to ask. I’m drawn to the kind of art that raises questions rather than answers — work that leaves space for silence, ambiguity, and feeling. Whether it’s the shifting lines of a long exposure or a portrait caught in the in-between, I try to make images that suggest more than they show.
Inspired by artists who moved against the current — Picasso, De Kooning, Rothko — I follow the thread of what feels honest, not what fits the trend. I believe in changing direction when it matters and making room for risk. That energy keeps the work alive.
While photography is my foundation, my work is evolving into abstract and cross-disciplinary forms — always chasing feeling over format.
If something here stirs your curiosity — or if you just want to talk ideas — I’d love to hear from you.
Thank you!