About Me

Step into the world of Richard George Davis, a designer and artist whose artwork redefines reality and stretches the limits of the imagination. Using photo manipulation and montage Richard transforms photographs to capture the surreal beauty of strange objects, places and phrases in dream-like emotive images that speak to the human subconscious making a statement about the conundrum of the human predicament.

Richard’s artworks have been showcased worldwide in different printed and digital magazines such as Advanced Photoshop Magazine, Photoshop Creative Magazine and Practical Photoshop. Among many international awards and features, Richard has received Four Daily Deviations Awards from deviantart.com, two Editor’s Choice Awards from photoshopcreative.co.uk and seven Daily Feature Awards from shadowness.com.

Currently based out of South Africa, Richard’s 17 years as a graphic designer, production artist, concept artist, art director and artist have left him with extensive experience in design, printing, publishing and web development while working with many distinguished clients and brands. His skills are self taught, acquired through on the job experience through years of hard work, perseverance, research and the drive to create, improve and succeed.

Richard’s work history has involved concept and design of advertising, retail, and collateral media which included large format printing, packaging, die cutting and reproduction along solving IT and design technical issues. The clients he has worked with include African Sales (COTY), Prestige Cosmetics, Ster Kinekor (Playstation) and Disney to name but a few. The tools used include Adobe CS6, an Apple iMac, a creative imagination, a passion for art and design, loud heavy music, his creative bag of tricks and chocolate.

Richard George Davis is also known as StudioDavis and nighthawk101 on the internet. He’s a not so typical long moused haired and green eyed monster that lives under your bed and only comes out at night to feed on your bad dreams and nightmares… That was a lie, his eyes are blue and according to others he has gorgeous long curly hair, good cheekbones and an agreeable posture. He’s an enthusiast of Apple Macs, art, design, graphics, humour, music, history, alternate lifestyles, liberal views, science, technology, the cosmos and the wonders of life. He enjoys whiling away his free hours with reading, listening to podcasts and music while occasionally watching documentaries and science fiction television series when not creating personal artworks. Richard’s influenced by some of the more prolific yet controversial writers, social commentators and scientists of our time such as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry, Derren Brown, Douglas Adams, Brain Cox, Penn Jillette and Salvador Dali.

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