David Abbot b. 1981

David Abbott lives and works in Bristol, UK. His practice explores the relationship between memory, perception, and landscape, combining observed reality with recollection to create paintings that shift between recognition and abstraction.

Abbott is drawn to the natural world as a system in constant flux, using it as an allegory for human experience and change. His work reflects on both the visible present and the deeper passage of time, where seasonal shifts and long geological processes coexist with personal memory and emotional resonance.

 

The landscape in Abbott’s paintings often becomes a space for projection—at once a site of history, industry, and human presence, and a force that exists independently of it. His compositions suggest places shaped by both natural and man-made transformation, where meaning is layered and unstable.