David Quinn :: Kyoto

We’re delighted to welcome David Quinn back to the gallery for his debut solo exhibition, Kyoto.

Drawing on the artist’s recent time in Japan, Kyoto brings together a new body of work that reflects Quinn’s instinctive approach to painting, where subtle mark-making and layered surfaces create visual haikus that reward close looking.

Known for his intimate abstract paintings, Quinn creates carefully layered works inspired by book design, musical notation, signwriting, and the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi—the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Built through repeated patterns of lines, dots and grids, his paintings possess a quiet rhythm and meditative quality, with muted colours and worn edges that evoke the passage of time.