The human spirit, reimagined

David Roman is a Birmingham-based contemporary artist creating symbolic figurative works with gold leaf, hand-crafted surfaces and materials traditionally associated with sacred objects.

His work responds to one of the defining questions of our time:
what is human value when technology, corporate systems and economic pressure treat humanity as disposable?

By bringing ancient craft into conversation with contemporary life, Roman’s paintings reconnect us with older stories of identity, our capacity for transformation, and humanity's place within a wider cosmology.