David Pole  grew up in the Wye Valley and attended Newport College of Art and Design, where he studied, in particular, illustration, etching and letter form.  His paintings are wonderfully detailed and colourful and express his creative imagination about the natural world, often incorporating elements of symbolic imagery.  His work has been shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal West of England Academy, and in a number of galleries in this country as well as in galleries in Chicago, Key West and Baltimore in America.