Mythos

Bally Stomp

This new series of etchings was commissioned and published by Edinburgh Printmakers in signed limited editions of 12 prints.

Produced in collaboration with master printer Alfons Bytautas, these single plate copper etchings utilise the techniques of chine colle on Japanese paper or background colours carefully applied with a roller.

Price for sets of 6 or 12 images available on request. © Edinburgh Printmakers / Alan Davie 2003

Alan Davie, born in 1920, is recognised as a major figure in art in 20th century art and considered the greatest living Scottish artist. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1940 and, after military service, earned a living by teaching and making jewellery. He was also a professional jazz musician and music continues to be important to him today. From 1947-9 he travelled throughout Europe on a travelling scholarship, meeting Peggy Guggenheim in Venice. His early work shows an affinity with the American Abstract Expressionists but he began to develop a deeply personal language based on his interests in primitive art and culture, mysticism and religion as well as his activities in music, gliding and diving.

Alan Davie held his first one-man show with Gimpel Fils in London in 1950. Since then he has had more than 100 one-man exhibitions in major galleries in Europe and North America.

He has held many important exhibitions of his work world-wide and is represented in major museum collections such as the Tate Gallery, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.