Kim Davison Artist Profile

Kim Davison - Second Artist Statement

July 29th, 2008

There is something beautiful about the naked body. Its non-verbal, though audible and visible, diverse narrative manifests beyond words, on rich visual, sensory and dynamic planes. Your body, my body exist in an ever-changing continuum. Our body can be assimilated in the present as a static snap-shot momentary event, and thoroughly comprehended retrospectively through its lines, contours, marks, postures, features, damage - its history, its memories, its experiences enfolded and encoded in the macroscopic molecular sculpture that we call the human form.

The body‘s psychic relations, which are effected on the mental and emotional planes but imprinted on the physical, leave permanent residues of the other voice as an interior whisper inscribed in a language that is unique for each individual. Its raw silence echoes an harmonic and archaic primal music, a personal music of the spheres. The culmination of shifting and intermingling notions of beauty, strangeness, pleasure and strength, often gendered, is a seductive subject for me to investigate and express. My painting is a sensory and intuitive response to the dynamics of contour, form, and texture.

Nothing is ever fixed. So teaches Zen. My own relationship and response to this natural evolving diversity continually changes also, my translation shifting focus as impressions mix and merge and color each other. In interpreting those sensations, in opening my eyes, the inherent overwhelming complexity is in effect slowed down to allow my subject to be captured in its totality. Layers of surface become an investigation into the history of that subject, eventually evolving as a recorded paradoxical mass of striking reality. I paint what evokes my internal response. Each response is unique, embedded, fragile and strong, true to my subject.

Kim Davison - Biography

July 29th, 2008

Kim Davison’s, semi abstract works find their inspiration from the human form and forms found in nature. Fluid and graceful, her work hopes to reflect our basic core emotions. Painting as a means of expressing her inner self, her work leaves a prolific visual trail of thought and in doing so reflects a universal sense of hope, love, passion and desire. Kim’s work has been exhibited across Britain, including London’s infamous Olympia Exhibition and is held in private collections across the UK.

Kim Davison - Artist Statement

July 29th, 2008

I produce from my studio - an ever evolving body of work where my passion
so far has been mostly in the figurative genre. Also simply the freedom of
movement: a diverse physical and psychic entity in constant communication
with itself - evokes emotion, tastes, truths, pleasures, and damage. I
capture one moment; a glimpse of a moment transcribed visually, connecting
with what it might mean - loaded - to live a life.

The body is a recurring theme which also means it can be traced back and
depicted through ancient symbolisms… for me, an experiment that can also
investigate gender - as part of a possibility to change - a precursive
movement to into understanding body habitation. To be able to decode
metaphor, let consciousness open up , wider, in all physical, pathological,
psychological senses… where reality strikes paradox. There something
primal echoes, where we are all the same. We have different experiences,
and chemical reactions. For me the question arises - ‘what constitutes
naturalness?’

I paint for my own record, to what makes my heart sing, to what feeds my
soul. In my own choreography. In this space I learn my own time, love and
understand people I meet along my way. Actually I paint because I don’t want
to stop…