David Reed Elliott is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, assemblage and word-based art.

David's practice is deeply informed by his background in art psychotherapy, with themes of identity, memory, and the interplay of the conscious and unconscious. His notable project 30 Oaks – 30 Silver saw him revisit seven locations across the UK where he had lived over three decades, planting oak saplings and burying silver coins as symbolic acts of reflection and renewal. These journeys generated sketches, totemic assemblages and mixed-media works exploring contrition, trauma and transformation.

The 2025 exhibition and workshop: A Time and Place at OVADA, Oxford, marked the culmination of his MFA studies, extending his inquiry into personal and ancestral memory. His Jazztown series, developed during a summer residency, represents a key evolution in his visual language, merging expressive abstraction with figurative landscape motifs.

David participated in the 2025 OVADA Summer Residency, continuing to develop a practice that bridges material exploration with psychological depth.