About The Artist

Artist David Fiore-McMahon got his first pen knife and block of balsa wood at the tender age of 5. He carved a pretty good likeness of a cheetah (colored with Crayolas) without slicing or stabbing himself even once. He credits a television free childhood to the early development of his artistic gifts. National Geographic was an early source of inspiration and sparked a lifelong interest in conservationism and natural history.

Having settled on an art career at an early age, David Fiore-McMahon studied art privately until his college years, when he studied classical guitar on a music scholarship at the University of Arizona. Like many other aspiring artists, many of Mr. McMahon's 20 and 30-something years were spent wandering about Europe and Latin America. He filled many a sketch book at the Uffizi Gallery and other museums from London to Florence and even (briefly) made ends meet as a tour guide in Northern Italy and Colonial Mexico.

David Fiore-McMahon's art very uniquely blends his interests in sculpture and painting. 'High fire glazes just have this magical way of capturing the soft pallette of desert plants as well as the intense colors of the desert sunsets. There is quite an involved process to produce one of my pieces, but the finished work has a boldness, a directness, that just communicates the beauty of the desert very effectively - so the process is emminently worth the effort. Also, because glazes never react to the firing process exactly the same way, I feel that the succes of my art relies on the benevolence of a higher power to a degree which always keeps it very exciting for me'.

David Fiore-McMahon met Juju Chase in India's snowy Himalaya's in 2008. They married in 2010 and reside with David's son Zyon in the Tucson Mountains at the northern reach of the beautiful Sonoran Desert. Mr. McMahon is a proud member of the Audobon Society and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.