Artist statement / Contact:

‘I make paintings that misbehave. They’re built through collision, abrasion, and the occasional truce between colour and mark. Nothing is neat. Nothing is fixed. My studio looks out toward Solsbury Hill, where the city slips into landscape, and that constant flux feeds the work. The canvases absorb grit, weather, and fragments of place. I work across multiple pieces at once, letting environment and uncertainty seep into each surface.

My approach draws on ideas explored by D.T. Suzuki, particularly Zen concepts of spontaneity and the void. These ideas were later absorbed into Western abstraction through the Abstract Expressionists—Rothko, Kline, Pollock—who embraced rupture, risk, and reconstruction after Suzuki’s New York talks in the 1930s. I’ve developed a deep admiration for artists who worked with similar urgency and resistance: Kazuo Shiraga, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Motherwell, Antoni Tàpies, and the British painter John Hoyland. It’s Hoyland’s “rebel momentum,” more than any single style, that threads through my practice, perhaps it’s a zen/punk thing?

I’m interested in what survives disruption: how found materials and fragments—travel sketches, wall patinas, graffiti, torn drawings, and screen prints—shift from noise into necessity. Doubt and interruption aren’t obstacles, but part of the structure, generating their own logic as the work evolves.

Materials act as collaborators. Paint is poured, scraped, and dragged back. Paper is torn and reassembled. Wood becomes relief. Colour remains intuitive, binding collage and large-scale canvases that move through cycles of building and undoing. 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.