BIO

David Hewison (born 1960, and brought up in Hong Kong and the UK’s West Country) is a former Jungian analyst and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, teacher, researcher and writer, who closed his consulting room at the end of May 2026. This has allowed him to devote more time to his art practice, so deepening for himself what had so often been an essential part of his patients’ healing and development.

He is particularly interested in processes of imagination and creativity and their relationship to memory, loss and the working through of grief. He is influenced by psychoanalytic explorations of early object relations - especially Christopher Bollas’ conceptions of transformational objects, aesthetic moments, and the unfolding of idiom - and the way these make use of material in the external world to express and to enrich the inner world. His work links these domains in personally-meaningful ways.

Coming to art practice in his mid-30s as one of the successful consequences of his own personal analysis, he has done a substantial portfolio of short courses at Central St Martins and City Lit in London, focusing on mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock printmaking) from 2012. He has studied with acclaimed mokuhanga artists Lucy May Schofield and Carole Wilhide Justin and is a participant in MI-Lab’s Advanced Artist in Residence programme in Echizen, Japan in June/July 2026.