About me.

Brian Hotson transforms the everyday, often-overlooked urban objects—recycling bins, payphones, bridges—into vibrant compositions that challenge how we see the world around us. Through his use of saturated colour and luminous light, he reframes the mundane, not merely to beautify, but to disrupt our habitual perception. His work serves as visual metaphors for welcoming difference, revealing the overlooked as sources of wonder and connection, and celebrating them as essential to a more inclusive world.

Everyday Abstracted

At the heart of his practice is a quiet but powerful act of acceptance. By choosing subjects that are worn, utilitarian, or peripheral, and rendering them with attention and care, Hotson offers a visual metaphor for welcoming difference. His work reminds us that what already exists in our lived environments—what we pass by each day without noticing—can be a source of wonder, connection, and reflection. In this way, his work becomes a form of visual advocacy: a celebration of the usual, the faded, the awkward, and the unremarkable as essential parts of a more inclusive and fully seen world.

“Hotson abstracts ordinary forms and imbues them with hectic, vivid light and colour, simultaneously modern and nostalgic. The work asks us to consider what we notice, asserting the energy of the unnoticed, the radiance of the ordinary.”