David Gerry Partridge was a sculptor (he used the term painter with nails), painter, etcher, engraver, printmaker and educator and was born in Akron, Ohio. He moved to Britain in 1928 with his family and then to Canada in 1936, living in Toronto, Ottawa, and St. Catharines. He lived in Sussex, England off and on from 1956 to 1974. He then returned to Toronto where he lived the rest of his life. His mediums were oil, watercolor, tempera, nails, aluminum, copper, and plywood. His style is non-objective, abstract. He is most well known for his unique low relief sculpture technique using nails in plywood. He called them Naillies or Configurations.

He studied at Radley College, Oxfor...