Art shouldn’t be confined to galleries, if the public are to appreciate art they need to experience it in the everyday context. They need the opportunity to purchase original works at affordable prices and to see it on their walls. This is a stall I am running at Seaton Artisan Market in Devon. My next…
This geometric response to the Isbon matchbox starting point cuts the picture plane into defined areas where subtle differences of line and colour interact to surround the extended central pictorial device.The white areas hold the piece together, not only serving to emphasise the subject matter, but to lead the eye around the composition. This piece…
This is Number 22 of my matchbox series. This series was started last year, 2013, and is on-going. I intend to exhibit these pieces in October 14 in a one man show in Teignmouth. This work uses everyday things which have all but disappeared in todays world. They pay homage to a way of life…
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…
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