Strawberries #3 1972 | David Platts | Silk Screen Print (Framed)
This exquisitely sharp hand pulled Silkscreen Print comes from the artists own personal collection of prints, originally created in 1972 making it over 50 years old. One of a few perfectly preserved limited edition prints that have made it to present day, although due to its blackest inks and pristine papers could be mistaken for something created just yesterday.
To David the Strawberry represents new life and new opportunities, the hundreds of little seeds all covering the fleshy outer are new stories just waiting to ripen and nourish new tales. The pop-art aesthetic is was typical of its time over 50 years ago, when this piece was lovingly and skilfully crafted by its maker.
These precious pieces have stood the test of time, much like their maker who’s life and creative path has been as relevant and ever evolving as he has during his 6 decade career as beloved painter, printer and sculptor.
Artist
David Platts
Curator Notes
Originally hand printed in 1972 ready to feature at the print biennale of the same year using a silk screen print press to create a chic and timeless design, perfect for the modern home.
Description
Medium: Silkscreen Print
Image Size: 90 x 90cm
Framed Size: 105 x 105cm
Edition: 75
About The Artist
David Platts is an English artist – a celebrated painter, printmaker and designer – a gifted draughtsman and colourist who is widely known for his abstract painting.
The art of Platts is profoundly contemplative and metaphoric. Industrial coach enamels and household paints (which first made their appearance in his work in the 1960’s) are used alongside the more traditional media of watercolour, gouache, oil and acrylic. He works from a premise of “an order in space” and every stage of the making of the artifact is meticulously controlled. The motif of either single or multiple fully interlocking shapes is developed with numerous permutations and combinations and nothing is left to chance – the “accident” has no role to play in his work. The picture plane, its boundaries and surround are considered as a whole: the frame is conceived as an integral part of the painting, the image sometimes growing organically beyond the generally accepted boundaries of the picture surface onto the frame.
Through colour, line, form and texture David Platts expresses profound degrees of feeling, the scale and intensity of which vary in nature as a sonata may vary from a symphony.
