Who said painting was dead?

illustrated: Painting 442 1997-2000 David Platts: De Profundis – Sheridan Russell Gallery, 16 Crawford Street, London W1H 1BS, 2 – 27 October 2007 As the title of the exhibition suggests, these are indeed works that have come ‘from the very depths of the soul’. After a period of some five years in which he suffered the trials and tribulations of […]
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Arts Extra, Grape Lane Gallery, York 1989

illustrated: Rhapsody 1989 ARTS EXTRA – Galleries Section David Platts – Grape Lane Gallery, Low Petergate, York Until August 30th For the general viewer, abstract art is the most difficult to comprehend. In an age of visual sophistication offered through television, videos and cinema, not to mention newspapers and magazines, the images we see are often powerful, sometimes poignant, often […]
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Everyone wants to understand art

illustrated: Elergy 1989 David Platts: ‘Works on Paper’ – One person show at the Grape Lane Gallery, York 1989 Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of painting, people have to understand… People […]
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Quinton Green Fine Art, Cork Street, London 1987

illustrated: East Ings 12 1986 David Platts: Pastels and Watercolours – Quinton Green Fine Art, Cork Street, London, June 1987 Quinton Green’s final exhibition is devoted to David Platts, a brilliant colourist, and will run from Wednesday 3rd June to Friday 26th June 1987. David Platts has a wonderful sense of colour and balance. He takes what Nature has given […]
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Exhibitions – Sheffield

illustrated: Two broken eggs and a rainbow, 1973-74 Exhibitions – Merete Bates writing in the Guardian December 12 1975 (snippet)… David Platts’s visual association of an egg and a rainbow, for all its strangeness, so swiftly suggests potency to the mind that it is difficult to understand why it has not been made before. His pastels, at the Vision Gallery, […]
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All that’s new and fit to print

illustrated: Strawberry 2 1972 – screen print edition of 75  The Third British International Print Biennale in Bradford –  Merete Bates writing in the Arts Guardian, Tuesday March 5 1974 Bright yellow AA arrows dedicate the route to the third British International Print Biennale in Bradford. And although attempts to besiege the mill-owners – busy buying and selling in the […]
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Strawberry fields for ever

illustrated: Strawberry print??? Strawberry Series of Paintings and Prints by David Platts – New Gallery, Batley School of Art and Design (until March 15). W.T. Oliver at the local galleries – writing in the Yorkshire Post Fond as I am of strawberries and cream, when I read that David Platts had produced thirty variations of the image of the strawberry, […]
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Strawberries in Batley

illustrated: from the front cover of ‘February in Yorkshire’ magazine (adapted from one of the Strawberry paintings) ‘Art and symbols of the soul of modern man‘ by Stephen Chaplin – ‘February in Yorkshire’ – Your guide to what’s on. Vol4 No.6 published by the Yorkshire Arts Association David Platts (New Gallery, College of Art, Batley – 27 February 1974) has been […]
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Design and Designers

illustrated: Outfit designed by Norma Chappell – printed wool by David Platts, 1969 Design and Designers – editorial in Fabric Forecast magazine, Autumn / Winter 1971 (snippet)… A teacher with quite different vision is David Platts. Seven years as a graphic designer, followed by a three-year scholarship at the RCA, have left him with an unmistakably graphic approach to textile […]
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