Alan Davie: An Inner Compulsion - Retrospective Exhibition

18 April - 4 May 2018

Following critically acclaimed exhibitions:‘To Uncover the Hidden Unknown’ (2012) and ‘The (Wild) Eye of Wonder’ (2014) Alan Wheatley Art is proud to announce a new Retrospective Exhibition by one of the most influential Modern British artists, Alan Davie, on the fourth anniversary of his passing.    

                     
’It’s an urge, an intensity, a kind of sexual need […]. I don’t practise painting or drawing as an art, in the sense of artifice, of making an imitation of something. It’s something I do from an  inner  compulsion,  that  has  to  come  out.’    
Alan Davie with a conversation with Mark Hudson.

Alan Davie (born in 1920, Grangemouth, Scotland – died 5 April 2014, Hertfordshire) is one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed artists of the post-war era. Distinguished by spontaneity, exuberant colour and improvisation, Davie's work has been shown frequently and with great success for 70 years! 

This new exciting Retrospective Exhibition at Alan Wheatley Art spans the whole artistic career and provide the opportunity to view previously unseen early oil paintings as well as works painted by the artist shortly before he died. 

The exhibition is accompanying by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Dr Michael Tucker (who collaborated on the Alan Davie monograph published by Lund Humphries in 1992).

Please contact the gallery for further details!

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