Archaeology has always been a passion of mine since I worked at Vindolanda on Hadrian’s wall in the early 70s. This painting was inspired by a visit to an ancient Roman site last summer called Clunia, near Curuna del Conte in the Ribera del Duero region of Spain. History is just below our feet. We…
My Handmade Cards are now being sold at four outlets: ‘The Square Gallery’ in St Mawes. Cornwall,’ Here Today Here Tomorrow’, 3A Balls Pond Road, London and ‘The Funky Aardvark’ in Teignmouth Devon, and not to be forgotten,’ The Seaton Artisan Market’, Seaton, Devon. The cards are all individual collaged pieces, combining painting on canvas…
See this piece from F G Davis as well as other new watercolours and collages and his unique and original handmade cards at Funky Aardvark, 11 Somerset Place, Teignmouth, TQ14 8EN. This new venue for artists and craftspeople is full of exciting work from local artisans and well worth a visit. Check out the face…
BUILDING BLOCKS. As we grow old the building blocks which made us what we are begin to show, like roots of trees that crack the very concrete of the pavements where we walk, reminding us of who we are despite the fact we’ve come so far. We walk on cracks, we marry a knat and…
This exhibition will document the progress of ex students of T.B.G.S. who have been taught by F G Davis in the past. These art students have agreed to contribute to a joint exhibition to be held at The Ariel Centre in Totnes Devon, during the Devon Open Studios in September 20014. The ex students are…
Watercolour on Paper. 22x23cm. 2014. One of a recent series of watercolours I have been working on. Hope you like it. G
Women have always struggled to get their voice heard in a situation where men were in the majority in decision making. In the case of the latest struggle for justice and equality the test began with the Jimmy Savile case. This clearly highlighted the need for more to be done to legitimise the truth of accusations of sexual…
I visited the Tate Modern to see the Paul Klee exhibition at the this year. He was my significant and primary introduction to abstract art in the 1960s and has influenced my work ever since. For me he bridges the gap between free expressionism in abstraction and a considered and scientific analysis of composition. He…
This piece used a box which came with a cup I bought from the Cavern Club in Liverpool in 2011. The work evokes the typical northern skyline, the dark satanic mills of Lancashire, indelibly etched on my childhood memories; a legacy of the industrial north of England with its mills, shipyards and factories which have…
Inescapable. Life is inescapable, we live, we die, we love, we try to find the ways we can fulfil our promise as the days pass by. To find the person that we are, to reach that bright illusive star, to make the most of what we have before this mortal toil has passed. We make…
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