Leigh Davis’s eagerly awaited third exhibition Pushing Boundaries has immediately become one of our most popular and successful exhibitions in 2022. Davis’s series of abstract paintings and sculptures has already attracted a diverse range of collectors and art lovers from across the world.
In his latest show, Davis fully articulates a process and style which has developed organically through two previous sold-out collections at The Nine British Art. Pushing Boundaries completes his journey into abstraction; an assured, expressive series of layered paintings and sculptures which are less concerned with reflections on specific places, landscapes and structures and instead use memory, feel and instinct to create work that is more dynamic than ever before.
While much of this exhibition has now been reserved, there are still some spectacular examples of Davis’s practice available. The blasts of vivid, compressed oils that give the expansive Bryher its vigour is an arresting introduction to the show at our Bury Street gallery. The more intimate, intricate work revealed in the aptly titled Landscape Rhythm or Enveloping Sea are just as captivating as intense expressions of colour, mark-work and layering.
Such commitment to physicality extends to Davis’s sculpture; Sea Stacks I & II both beautifully composed reflections on the logan stone rock stacks of the Southwest. The two components in these pieces are thrillingly connected, almost in dialogue with one another.
In the catalogue to this show, Leigh Davis explains that when he’s in the moment of creating these works, he feels a kind of euphoria. “I’m completely and utterly absorbed,” he reveals. Encountering his painting and sculpture at The Nine British Art over the next few weeks is a similarly absorbing, enveloping experience, a body of work that becomes a connected yet spontaneous investigation of feeling, form, and composition.
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