Gareth Buxton Profile
"Buxton's extraordinary work is becoming more
visceral and more obsessed with the physical.
It's as if each moment that passes since his
near-fatal road traffic accident somehow brings
him closer to understanding the ramifications of
what could have happened on that day. He sees the
fragility of existence and then seems to revel in
it."
His earliest work is experimental, technically
proficient and popular, relying on certain
cliches, such as stormy land & seascapes to
take those first steps on a somewhat brave &
very engaging journey. Having dabbled with
recreational painting prior to the accident,
Buxton now relies on his increasingly elaborate
form of expression as a catharsis. His
extraordinary work is becoming more visceral and
more obsessed with the physical. It's as if each
moment that passes since his near-fatal
road-traffic accident somehow brings him closer
to understanding the ramifications of what could
have happened on that day. He sees the fragility
of existence and then seems to revel in it.
Buxton is having a sonorous but surprisingly
candid conversation with mortality, perhaps in a
way that only someone who has come so close to it
can.
The impressive artistic development of Buxton,
currently an Information Technology professional
based in Derbyshire, is, in our opinion at least,
squarely attributable to an appalling car crash
he was involved in a few years ago. He admits
that, since the accident in 2004 that came within
an inch of taking his life, he has been forced to
re-evaluate his priorities. But it is clear that
he is evaluating much more than that.
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