Artist statement / Contact:

‘I make paintings that misbehave. Nothing is neat. Nothing is fixed. The surfaces are in flux. I have been called a ‘Nirvana nilihist’. Perhaps this explains the influence of two key creatives, on one hand the chaotic collages of Kurt Schwitters and on the other the philisophy of D.T. Suzuki and Zen Buddhist ideas that shaped Abstract Expressionism in New York. Bringing concepts of ‘the void’ and ‘spontaneity’ into painting. Other influences such as Dada and Abstract Expressionism. In the studio my art emerges out of the order and chaos, where beauty and destruction, all play their part.

My studio looks out towards Solsbury Hill in Bath, Somerset, UK. Here the city slips into the natural landscape, and that constant flux feeds the work. For me the canvases, some small or others 2 metres long, need to live a little, they absorbs the grit and detritus of time, fermenting. I work across multiple pieces at once, letting environment and uncertainty seep into each surface.

Through works on paper and oil paintings; I’m interested in what survives the disruption of making: how the found materials and fragmented pieces of canvas, come into existence, sometimes the content can include ideas from travel sketches, wall patinas, graffiti, torn drawings, and screen prints, these shift from noise into necessity. Doubt and interruption aren’t obstacles, but part of the structure, generating their own logic as the work evolves to a kind of resolution or abandonment. I want the finished works to feel unsettled but alive—as if still reconstructing themselves beyond the studio.’

David Moxon, April 2026

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Education:

BA (Hons) Fine Art - University of East London, UK. (Exchange: Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California, USA)

Masters, Art & Ideology in Europe - Winchester School of Art / Southampton University, UK.