David Wightman

I am a painter and printmaker living and working in London, UK. My colourful landscape and abstract paintings are created from meticulously hand-cut collaged wallpaper using a technique similar to marquetry. Each painting is painstakingly collaged and painted over a period of several weeks. My prints are unique explorations of colour and composition, based on the original drawings I create for my landscape vistas.

My artworks are deeply indebted to the history of landscape painting, as well as modernism and colour theory. I draw inspiration from a variety of sources — from Japanese woodblock prints to classical landscape painting — though my colour palette is influenced more by Josef Albers than J. M. W. Turner.

I see my works as beautiful distractions: functioning both as abstract compositions and imagined vistas. My paintings and prints offer a glimpse into another world — seemingly real, yet entirely fictional.