Alan Davie contemporary art prints

		contemporary British art prints
Home Click on any artist below to see their limited edition prints for sale Artists John Bellany Sir Peter Blake Alfred Cohen Charlotte Cornish Alan Davie Anthony Green Peter Griffin Matthew Hilton Lin Jammet Lucy Jones Sonia Lawson Eduardo Paolozzi		Alan Davie Alan Davie limited edition signed art prints Alan Davie (b.1920) is a Scottish painter and was one of the first British artists to win international acclaim after the Second World War. In 1941 Davie won a travel scholarship, which he took up after completing war service. He travelled around Europe, where his work attracted the attention of the influential collector Peggy Guggenheim. On return to Britain, Davie’s knowledge of European artists contributed to the development of his own work. In 1956 he exhibited in New York where he met Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem De Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko. Davie has continued to travel widely and exhibits extensively in Europe and the United States. In the more than 60 year long career of Alan Davie, there has never been a clear distinction for him between drawing, painting and printmaking. They are all done in an intuitive, improvised manner. His hands are working on their own and Davie watches what happens. His activities as a printmaker have been intermittent but concentrated. Until 1999 nearly all his printmaking had been confined to the medium of lithography. Then at the age of 80, he embarked upon a major campaign of screenprinting, working with the master printmaker Kip Gresham at Gresham Studio, near Cambridge. The subtlety of Davie's drawings pushes the medium to its limits and requires stencils that are very fragile. Therefore the number of prints is small - most of them have been made in short editions of 30 or less. His screenprints have been formed in four waves, each surge using its own distinct methodology and technical vocabulary. A close collaboration between the artist and the printers has been an essential part of the process. The nature of the collaboration is very close to Davie's experience in playing jazz and free form music. All those involved are dependent on one another and experimentation is at the heart of the activity. For more information on pricing and availability please contact us on contemporary.art@virgin.net Link of the day Leather cubes		Click on a thumbnail below to see a larger image and more information. cueva negra kip's horse variation 1 tresor fone