Artist visits Jumbo to film TV series

Accomplished artist David Downes visited Jumbo to get inspiration for to his latest paintings and to film a tv series.

A crew making a film about his work accompanied David Downes on a tour of Jumbo. He later spent time at the firstsite gallery working on images of Jumbo. The filming was part of a pilot for a tv series, Out of the Audinary, which will showcase extraordinary professional in music, art, sport, finance and other areas who are turning neurodivergent traits into strengths.

Based in Manningtree where he has a gallery, David is a landscape painter celebrated for his skies, seascapes and architectural drawings. An autistic man with a photographic memory, he is a graduate of The Royal College of Art and Vice President of the National Autistic Society and an Ambassador for Autism Anglia.

A man wearing a high visibility jacket stands inside a metal tank next to the walls and a diagonal support.

David said:

“I have loved seeing inside a building I have always admired. Jumbo is an incredible building, so iconic.”

If you want to support the Crowdfunding appeal which will fund the making of the Out of the Audinary tv series, go to:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/out-of-the-audinary-tv-series