“I’m blessed and happy to be alive,” he says. “I’ve always been an artist and I want to keep doing what I’m doing.” What Davis is doing is producing work that is receiving worldwide recognition. He favors landscapes, saying they provide him a sense of serenity. He feels they capture the soul and have a way of taking you to another place. “I’ve seen enough violence, I don’t have to paint that, I want to paint things that are serene, I want to be in a good place.”
His works are widely reproduced, most notably by the MFPA, where he is an active member. There he is working to show others that they can have similar success. Through art he has found a purpose and with the help of the MFPA he has a forum to showcase his art, and most importantly he remains financially independent.
Currently he is working to get one of his most well-recognized works, a portrait of President Barack Obama, into Chicago’s planned Obama Library. Some of his large-scale paintings take up to six months to complete and one of his paintings is in the Albanian Embassy. Davis plans to continue exhibiting his works in both national and international venues. Further, his work is being reproduced as greeting cards.
Not content to just find his happy ending, Davis is determined to inspire people and prove that they can overcome any obstacle, no matter their fear or limitations.
He is a ‘peer mentor’ at the rehab institute, and currently works with four mentees. He’d like to start a Foundation, and already has a name picked out – Imagine the Possibilities.
“You have to dare yourself to try,” he offers. “If there’s a will there’s a way, and the cave you fear to venture into holds your treasure.”