DAVID POXON RI, NWS, IWM
David Poxon was born in the Industrial heartland of England, but now makes his home in the rural countryside of Shropshire, UK. He is an elected member of the prestigious R.I. (The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours) and has served on the R.I. Council. He is also a signature member of N.W.S (The National watercolour society of America.
Over the years he has won many awards and accolades for the precision and craftsmanship of his paintings. He is the author of two books on drawing techniques and has contributed many articles to the Art Magazine press and has appeared in numerous art books.
His 188 page book Watercolour Heart & Soul has become a best seller.
Painting in pure watercolour medium he uses a painstaking multi-glazing technique, with sometimes up to 20 layers of transparent paint, each in turn delicately modulating the colours beneath. There is no white paint used at all in any of his works preferring instead to preserve areas of the natural paper, his paintings can take many weeks in the making.
A recurring theme in his work is the reclamation by nature of that which man has created and abandoned, finding renewed life between object and environment. In 2018 David organised and curated the first International Watercolour Masters Exhibition in the UK a biennial event. In 2024 he presented a much-expanded IWM featuring 50 of the world’s elite watercolour painters at Lilleshall Hall Shropshire. A first for watercolour was also the founding of IWM TV which simultaneously broadcast all the live IWM2024 demonstrations to the world.
David has recently completed a second online workshop course for Domestika filmed in Madrid which is now available internationally.
His workshops are in demand world-wide.
RECENT AWARDS (partial listing)
London R.I. Royal Institute London, Critics Award
Art USA Grand finalist 2024
Pakistan Lifetime Achievement Award
San Diego USA AWS Global Award
Paris Salon International Alizarine Medale d’ honour
New Orleans USA International First Prize
London R.I. Winsor & Newton prize at the annual Royal Institute exhibition
Los Angeles National Watercolour Society of America Presidents Prize.
Shanghai Biennale First prize of Excellence
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“I love to zoom in on abandoned corners or overlooked machinery and am continuously drawn to things and places that have worked hard for a living. These objects and scenarios seem to imbue something of the men that created them. Not just content to make things that were fit for purpose they also harbour a living character and aesthetic harmony which is both joyous and soulful. To capture the reality and essence of these moments in time, as nature reclaims them for her own, I consciously leave nothing out, and put nothing in, that is not there. I do this out of respect for those that have enriched our world with their astute craftsmanship.”
