| Francis Davison |
| Biography |
| 1919-1984, graduate of Cambridge who started out as a poet but turned to painting in the late 1940's after a school friend invited him to St Ives. In 1950 after a few years in Cornwall he moved to Suffolk with his wife the fellow artist Margaret Mellis. His early paintings and collages of landscapes and cottages seem to confess their Cornish roots but progressively his work became more colourful and whilst a strong sense of landscape remained and any hint of depiction was dismissed. For the last 30 years of his life Davison mainly produced coloured collages that exhibit a sense of maturity sometimes absent from this particular medium. They are made from coloured papers, interlocking or overlaid, added or subtracted, built and carefully adjusted to form their final accumulative shapes. |
| Green Grey Black-Rivets Collage 1970 100x80 POA Framed |
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| Two Circles in Red and White Collage 1963-65 62x65 Artists ref and initialled by Margaret Mellis verso POA Framed |
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| Melon in Bowl Oil on Board 1948/9 33x41 poa SOLD |
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Pylon Collage on Essex Board 1952-63 43x56 Estate stamped and referenced verso poa SOLD |
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Two Cottages and Sea Oil Wash and Conte Crayon 1960 28x42 poa SOLD |
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