David Boyd won significant international recognition and was invited in 1969 by the Commonwealth Institute of Art in London to hold  a major retrospective of his paintings.
Represented in COLLECTIONS:
Australian Art Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide)
Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra)
National Portrait Gallery - Canberra
Tasmanian Museum and National Art Gallery (Hobart)
Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney)
Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
Powerhouse Museum  (Sydney)
Art Bank (Sydney)
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)
Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth)
Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection (Perth)
Australian War Memorial (Canberra)
The University of Queensland, (Brisbane) Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (Ballarat) Victoria
University of Sydney Faculty of Law (Sydney)
School of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne
Monash University (Melbourne)
University of Melbourne Law School
Newcastle City Council - Region Art Gallery
The University of New South Wales (Sydney) Australia
Bendigo Art Gallery (Bendigo) Victoria
University of Adelaide, South Australia
Macquarie University (Sydney)
Bundanon Trust - The Gift to the Nation of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd
Harold Mertz Collection of Australian Paintings, USA
Lincolnshire and South Humberside Arts,
Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
Adelaide Art Teachers College, Adelaide, SA
Sydney University Power Collection
Graylands College, Perth, Western Australia

Australian War Memorial, Canberra;
Queensland University, Brisbane;
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;
Ballarat Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria;
Sydney University (Law Faculty), Sydney;
Harold Mertz Collection of Australian Paintings, United States of America;
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
Lincolnshire and South Humberside Arts, Usher Gallery, Lincloln, England,
Fine Arts Department, University of Melbourne;
National gallery, Canberra;
Adelaide Art Teachers College, Adelaide, SA;
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria,
Law School, University of Melbourne;
Newcastle Region Art Gallery; New South Wales;
University of New South Wales;
Sydney University Power Collection;
Bendigo Art Gallery;
Graylands College, Perth, Western Australia;
National Gallery of Victoria;
The University of Adelaide, South Australia;
Macquarie University, Sydney, New South wales;
Bundanon Trust, Nowra, New South Wales;
Macquarie University, New South Wales;
National Gallery of Victoria, Adam and Eve;
Art Gallery Of Western Australia,
St Francis and the Birds;
Bundanon www.bundanon.com.au/  
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Truganini, The Offering www.ngv.vic.gov.au/malp/boyd.html  Pottery:
Department of External Affairs, Canberra;
Museum of Applied Arts and Science, Sydney;
 The Power House; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth;
Staffordshire Museum, Stoke-on-Trent;
Museum of Modern Art of Australia, Melbourne;
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;
University of Western Australia, Perth;
University of Queensland, Brisbane. 

Title: Europa Drinking from a Pool in an Abandoned Paddock, 2005
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image size: 71 x 76 cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd
 

Title: Tall Ships Returning II - 1992, From the 'Requiem for the Birth of a Nation' Series,
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 62 x 75 cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd
Date lower left: 1992

Title: Untitled (Children playing)
Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 28 x 23 cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd
 

Title: Bather Under Golden Wattle circa early 1980's
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 35 x 40cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd
 

Title:      Children Watching Sails
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 31 x 39 cm
Framed size: 55 x 63 cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd

Title: Europa Appearing c.1975
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image size: 50 x 75 cm

Title: Light on Mustard Fields circa 1975
Medium: Oil on Board
Image size :30 x 45 cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd

Title: Chasing Butterflies and Guardian Angel c.1974
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image size: 54 x 65 cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd

Title: Europa the Sacred Golden-Plumed wombat sitting on her belly
Medium: Oil on canvas on board
Image Size: 43.5 x 60.5 cm
Signed Lower left: DAVID BOYD
Date inscribed lower right: 2002

NOTES:
The beautiful Europa is fascinated by the characteristically Australian Sacred Golden Plumed Wombat. Europa dreams are hounded by the sacred wombat … sometimes sitting on her belly.  Thus the title “Europa and the Sacred Golden Plumed Wombat sitting on her belly” awakens my inspiration. Written by
David Boyd born 1924

Title: Europa with Sunflowers White Cockatoo 1995
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 57 x 76 cm
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower left
Dated: Lower Right 1995

one of the first oil on canvas, which evolved the most prominent “Europa” series from the Legend of Europa and the Cockatoos it is an important painting. “Europa Sunflowers and White Cockatoo 1995” is a top-quality masterpiece, sculptural and an almost three dimensional work of art. 

Title: Children reaching Blue Roses to fulfill the dreams with White Cockatoos flying over the River of Gold circa 1996
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 48 x 63 cm
Framed size: 75 x 90cm
Signed lower right: DAVID BOYD

Title: Chasing around the Sun from Europa White Cockatoo & Sacred golden plumed Wombat 2002
Medium: Oil on canvas on board
Image Size: 43 x 60 cm
On reverse: "Chase Around The Sun" Europa & Wombat David Boyd 2002
Signed Lower left: DAVID BOYD 2002

Title:      Bathers by a Lagoon circa 1970's
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 36 x 46 cm
Framed size: 58 x 68 cm
Signed lower right: David Boyd
inscribed with title verso "BATHERS BY A LAGOON"

Title: Gold Waterfall Children & Cockatoos c.1996
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 60 x 45 cm
Signed lower right: David Boyd

Artist:     DAVID BOYD (1924-)
Title:     Europa & the River of Gold c.1996
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 64 x 54 cm
Signed lower left: David Boyd

Title:      CHILDREN UNDER THE WATTLE TREE
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 20.5 x 18.5 cm
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower left

Title:     Europa with Blue Roses
Medium: Oil on canvas on board
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower left

Artist:     DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:      Europa Series
Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 122 x 122 cm
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right
Price:     SOLD

 

Artist:     DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:      Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower left
 

Artist:    DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:     Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right

Artist:    DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:     Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right
 

Artist:    DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:     Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower left

 

Artist:    DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:     Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower left
Price:     SOLD

 

Artist:    DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:     Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right
 

Artist:    DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:      Amore MUSICALE - Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right
 

Artist:     DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:      Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right
 

Artist:     DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:      Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right
 

Artist:     DAVID BOYD (1924-)  
Title:      Music and the Angels series
Medium: Mixed medium
Image Size:
Signed: DAVID BOYD Lower right
 

David Boyd  dedicated The Legend of Europa and the Cockatoos to his brother, Arthur Boyd (1920- 1999), in appreciation of his generosity to the Australian people and his affection for cockatoos. The Legend of Europa and the Cockatoos is dedicated to my brother, Arthur Boyd (1920- 1999), in appreciation of his generosity to the Australian people and his affection for cockatoos. Written  David Boyd (B. 1924 - ) late 1994.

"Unlike the various Trial series of paintings which used the visual language to express ideas about a fundamental and disturbing feature of the human condition, The Legend of Europa and the Cockatoos is presented as an entertaining parable. The following background notes may be of interest to people curious about how the series evolved.

Late in 1994 I was working on some pastels called Music and the Angels.  Because of the wings and the expression on the faces of the angel musicians, the pastels evoked the spirit of the Baroque rather than the exhilarating frenzy of 20th century rock music.  Suddenly in December, following the opening of the new second north south runway and the closure of the main east west at Sydney Airport, the roar of jet aircraft ascending north in increasing frequency above my studio or the whining scream as they approached to land, completely drown the music of the angels. Putting aside their instruments they gazed sadly upwards or out of the picture.

I have kept the angel that first appeared thus.  It is called Angel Listening to the Roar of Jets Over Sydney Australia. The painting belongs to the artists collection, on occasion is included, on loan, to selected exhibitions.  What has does the above got to do with a winged figure chasing cockatoos?

An idea can have its genesis in unexpected ways. Since boyhood I had not given a great deal of thought to airplanes, but now with huge jet machines constantly roaring overhead it become impossible to ignore this wonder of modern technology. Remote from Jumbo jets but enough to set the imagination on fire, using the drawings as reference I painted a winged figure running to gain speed, as a pelican does before rising. 

To draw or paint pictures of the things would keep their menacing shape in the forefront of the mind. It happened that waiting amongst a stack of pencil drawings from the 1960's was a sketch of a winged figure running through the bush land. The title, “Europa Fleeing from a Bushfire” instantly kindled an idea. Why not! I thought. There is a link there.

There followed other pictures of a related configuration - such as “Europa falling above an inland sea or leaning against the rough back of a wombat while star gazing”. At night she dreams that she is frolicking with the cockatoos.

Sacred Golden-Plumed wombat  "Europa and the Sacred Golden-Plumed wombat sitting on her belly".

Beautiful, Europa was hounded in her dreams and fascinated by the characteristically Australian, irresistible "Sacred Golden-Plumed wombat" sometimes sitting on her belly. Thus the title “Europa and the Sacred Golden-Plumed wombat sitting on her belly” awakens my inspiration.

Europa days are fully occupied chasing golden crested white cockatoos and on other occasions Europa was chased by the rarely seen Black Cockatoo. Europa pursues the cockatoos believing that cockatoo’s crests are made of the purest gold.  She is convinced that if she captures the birds and enlarges her wings with their crests she will achieve the exhilarating freedom of flight. 

From a hiding place in a wattle tree Europa preys on the unsuspecting birds, Europa is successful grasping their crests when they fly close.  Over a period of the hundred and seven years she gradually enlarges her wings."