Joshua Davison

Joshua Davison is a self-taught painting and sculpture artist with a wide range of work surrounding portraiture and nature studies. He primarily specialises in oil painting, while also gaining experience woodworking, mould making/epoxy casting and spray painting. By using these techniques in conjunction, he aims to create artwork that blurs the line between painting and sculpture.

Joshua began painting in his last year of college, and proceeded to win the top painting award that year. He then studied at Elam School of Fine Arts for one year before deciding to leave university to create art full-time. This brought five years of experimentation and self-teaching that led to much personal and artistic growth, and the creation of more than 50 artworks. This time taught Joshua many things, most importantly how to imagine, plan, and execute high-quality artworks of any size.

Joshua is inspired by contemporary artists like Miles Johnston, Ivan Alifan, Loribelle Spirovski and Henrik Uldalen. He’s motivated by the works and processes of the old masters, the path to original thinking, the bridge between science and art, instigating a range of emotions through art, and the prospect of reaching mastery. In a world where it seems everything’s already being done, true originality is rare and mysterious and is often a term loosely thrown around.