Painter
David Bushell is a painter, motorcyclist dog owner and sometime member of the Whitstable Dazzle. He plays double bass in The Art pop band Gum!
Currently on the Turps Margate programme, 2026-27.
Based in Whitstable, Kent, his current practice explores perception and embodiment through an ongoing series of large-scale acrylic paintings. The work considers how relationships between colour, form, hue and tone can alter our sense of orientation, perceived tension and movement, and shape our felt sense of the image.The paintings occupy a space between seeing and experiencing, creating uncertainty.
Scale, structure and the relationships between forms act as a catalyst, drawing the viewer into the painting and inviting an encounter rather than a fixed interpretation.