David Lynch

• First trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Boston, this was where he was first introduced to filmmaking.

• Started at Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts for film,  is best known for his internationally acclaimed career in that medium. also a writer, photographer, musician, composer, sculptor, cartoonist, and a printmaker.

• The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart. His last feature film, Inland Empire, came out in 2006. Apparently, he was spending much of his free time in the studio.

• Practitioner of transcendental meditation - a technique for detaching oneself from anxiety and promoting harmony and self-realization by meditation, repetition of a mantra, and other yogic practices.

• The influence of Irish artist Francis Bacon is clear in Lynch’s own paintings. He love FB.

• His work as a painter provides a deeper understanding of his vision and also reveals a vital source of inspiration for his instantly recognizable filmmaking aesthetic. 

"All my paintings are organic, violent comedies. They have to be violently done and primitive and crude, and to achieve that I try to let nature paint more than I paint." - DL

Stills

Mulholland Drive

Twin Peaks

Eraserhead

Elephant Man

Francis Bacon Inspo:

Prints:

I'm an admirer of David Lynch's films and was only surprised for a moment when I discovered he made prints and paintings s well. The images he creates onscreen seem like they should be paintings; everything Lynch places in a frame is very recognizable as his work due to their dark and often surreal natures. I like how he chose to trust a place and stick to it, by not shying away from the eerie and rather embracing it by unwaveringly honoring a specific aesthetic. I also like the fact that it feels like his paintings and prints seem like a genuine expression of his creativity - they are the middle ground between his meditation practices and bombastic cinematic outputs.