Strawberry Reprise 1 | David Platts | Silk Screen Print

Artist

David Platts

Curator Notes

Strawberry Reprise #1 is a modern day interpretation of one of Davids beloved Strawberries, originally hand printed in 1972 ready to feature at the print biennale of the same year. Still using a silk screen print press to create this chic limited edition, David has created a contemporary version of his iconic strawberry for the modern home and collector.

Description

Medium: Silkscreen Print

Image Size: 50 x 50cm

Framed Size: 54.5 x 54.5cm

Edition: 50

*Our Frames are box frames in either Ash or Black moulding measuring 2cm across and 3cm deep. Box frames are great as they allow the glass to be kept away from the surface of the print without the need of a window mount.

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.