Grape Lane Gallery, York 1988

illustrated: Fifteenth Variation 1988  Enigmatic Variations by David Platts – Grape Lane Gallery, York, June 1988 A Programme Note: It is preferable not to seek to ‘understand’ these paintings in an intellectual sense any more than one would expect to understand a Beethoven Symphony or a Chopin piano concerto. Allow the eye the freedom one would willingly accord the ear […]
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The spiritual in painting – no ordinary skies

illustrated: The artist seated in front of Nimbus 1980-81 in 1981 Artist’s statement, 1981 It is not true that the world of the visual arts and especially of painting, possesses a unique language of its own. It is therefore both inappropriate and superfluous for the artist to write about it, as the work must be allowed to speak for itself. […]
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A simple device?

illustrated: Strawberry Painting 17 1972 David Platts: One person show – Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield 1974 For the second exhibition in the Upstairs Gallery at the Mappin, we are showing a small selection of the recent work of a young designer and lecturer David Platts. This series of “strawberry paintings” was produced from 1969 to 1974. Several factors governed David […]
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Individual man and his search for himself

illustrated: David Platts with Strawberry Painting 1 at the Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield in 1974 David Platts – One person show – Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield 1974. ‘Letter to the Public’ by Margaret Anderson It is the artist who, gathering his thoughts, ideas, experiments and experiences together, gives us a refined visual result. What, I have asked myself, is the […]
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A Viewer’s view

illustrated: Strawberry painting 19 1972. Collection: Mr & Mrs Lennox ‘A Viewer’s View’ – David Lennox writing about the ‘Strawberry series’ of paintings in 1972 I look at these paintings, I enjoy them, as a layman. David Platts’ fellow painters will see clearly the resourcefulness of technique which people like me see more faintly ‘from the outside’, as it were. […]
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