Alan Davie

James Alan Davie (28 September 1920 – 5 April 2014) was a Scottish painter, poet, and musician, celebrated as one of the first British artists to embrace expressive abstraction after World War II. Across his artistic pursuits, Davie sought to connect with the mystery and magic of the universe, losing himself in the process. Influenced by Zen Buddhism and so-called ‘primitive’ art, Davie regarded his role as an artist as akin to a priest, a conduit to religious experience. 

Today, Davie’s work hangs in many notable museum collection like the Tate Britain, MoMA, The Met, and Peggy Gughenheim’s collection in Venice.