John Davison

: Aug. 2014

: 34

(1)

United Kingdom

 
 
  • I have been a painter for 25 years, and throughout this period my paintings have been inspired by landscape and a sense of place. Landscape is integral to the subject matter of my work, and it also provides me with the means to explore connotations about the painting process. To me, painting is a similar awe-inspiring parallel pursuit to setting out on a walk and exploring new places. In the studio lots of things intrigue me; colour, spatial depth, mark making, composition, accident, layering, scale inversion and the physicality of paint. It is not my intention to replicate nature; I want to evoke a sense of it. I want the viewer to search within my paintings, as I have within the landscape. I paint in a range of materials in particular Oil, resin and oil based mediums, on canvas. 
    Paintings available for shipping outside of the UK on request.

  • 1999 - 2001

    Manchester Metropolitan University, BA Fine Art.

  • 2003

    Florence Trust Artist Residency

    Year long residency at the Florence Trust in Highbury, London. The Florence Trust selects 10-12 emerging artists every year from applicants around the world.

    2001

    Ken Bolony Painting Prize

    Manchester painting prize for painters.


1999 - 2001

Manchester Metropolitan University, BA Fine Art.


2003

Florence Trust Artist Residency

Year long residency at the Florence Trust in Highbury, London. The Florence Trust selects 10-12 emerging artists every year from applicants around the world.

2001

Ken Bolony Painting Prize

Manchester painting prize for painters.


 

I have been a painter for 25 years, and throughout this period my paintings have been inspired by landscape and a sense of place. Landscape is integral to the subject matter of my work, and it also provides me with the means to explore connotations about the painting process. To me, painting is a similar awe-inspiring parallel pursuit to setting out on a walk and exploring new places. In the studio lots of things intrigue me; colour, spatial depth, mark making, composition, accident, layering, scale inversion and the physicality of paint. It is not my intention to replicate nature; I want to evoke a sense of it. I want the viewer to search within my paintings, as I have within the landscape. I paint in a range of materials in particular Oil, resin and oil based mediums, on canvas. 
Paintings available for shipping outside of the UK on request.