This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Davie  (28 September 1920, Grangemouth, Scotland - 5 April 2014, Hertfordshire, England) - 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 over 70 years.   

Like his heroes, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock and Joan Miró, Alan Davie drew inspiration for his paintings from music, jazz in particular, and was himself an accomplished player of several instruments. A multi-faceted creative spirit, Davie was also absorbed by a wide range of interests, such as the teachings of Zen philosophy and oriental mysticism, primitive art, modern music, underwater swimming and gliding.   

Although Davie’s roots were in Scottish painting, and close to the warmth and vivacity of modern French art, Davie created his own unique artistic language, related to the diversity of his interests. His work contains strong symbolic elements associated with the very beginnings of art where shapes and signs carried great significance.   

Davies’ first one-man show was held in 1946 at Grant's Bookshop in Edinburgh.  At the recommendation of Peggy Guggenheim, which he had met in Venice in 1948, Alan Davie held his first one-man exhibition in London in 1950 at Gimpel Fils, where he was subsequently showing until his passing.    

His work can be found in the most eminent private and public collections around the world.   

In 2017 Alan Wheatley Art was appointed sole representative of the Estate of Alan Davie.   

This new exciting online exhibition provides the opportunity to view previously unseen small oils on board executed between 1994 and 2011.  

All works are for sale.