David W. Mayer, Fine Art Biography
The following, submitted December 2004, is from the artist.

David W. Mayer is a member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA), the Rocky
Mountain Plein Air Painters (RMPAP), and is an avid "plein air" painter with an emphasis on portraying the beauty of Colorado high country mountains, streams and lakes.

Mayer has studied with Scott Christensen, Kevin Macpherson, Ted Goerschner,
David Leffel and at the Loveland Academy with Travis Conrad Erion as well as
through the writings and works of Richard Schmid, Edgar Payne, Joaquin Sorolla and the California Impressionists. While he was an award-winning watercolorist who studied with Tony Couch, Mayer has concentrated exclusively on oil painting for the past seven years.

He was also an Art Director and Creative Director in print, web, interactive media and marketing communications prior to painting full time as a professional landscape artist. He is a member of the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club in support of preserving the wilderness and scenic grandeur of the West.