Born and raised in Massachusetts, David Raymond Marsh divides his time between Amherst and Orleans, Massachusetts and Sedona, Arizona. After careers in pediatrics, public health and global health, he "retired" to capture and interpret the beauty of creation through representational landscape painting. He was happily surprised to learn of the outsized role of "science" in creating beauty--color theory, composition rules, the physics of light and paint application, the chemistry and toxicology of paint, and the physiology and psychology of color perception, and more. When science, esthetics, and the soul converge to approximate beauty, perhaps it's a glimpse into the mind of God! His mentors and teachers include Dave Santillanes, Gretchen Lopez, Bill Cramer and Cody DeLong. He has exhibited in Clarkdale, Cottonwood, Prescott and Sedona, AZ and in Holyoke, MA. He was awarded "Best Painting" at the Verde Valley Fair in Cottonwood. He enjoys occasional still life and figurative painting, but the allure of the great outdoors--especially the American Southwest--predominates. His wife, Christie, loves fly-fishing, kayaking and camping, which facilitates planning trips but triples the luggage. ;)