Alan Davie at Indelible Fine Art
Scottish painter Alan Davie never aimed for polite, tidy abstraction. He moved between jazz, poetry, myth and pure instinct — letting symbols, animals and half-remembered dreams land in blazing colour.
If you’re looking for a particular period, palette, or edition, get in touch — availability changes, and some works are not always listed online.
Biography & market context
Alan Davie was never interested in fitting neatly into the art world. Born in Grangemouth, Scotland, in 1920, he came from a working-class family, fell for painting and jazz early, and kept that sense of risk and momentum throughout his life.
He didn’t want polite, perfectly controlled pictures — he wanted the work to feel alive, spiritual and slightly unknown. Over decades he developed a visual language of animals, masks, ladders, suns and strange diagrams: part ritual, part game, part map of the subconscious.
You don’t have to decode Davie. Stand in front of it and let rhythm, symbol and colour do the work.
What inspired Alan Davie?
Davie’s work pulls from improvisation, ancient visual languages, nature and a personal interest in spirituality. He treated painting like music — a structure you enter, then break open.
Symbols recur across the work — masks, animals, suns, ladders — not as a fixed code, but as a vocabulary that shifts each time it appears.
Alan Davie at Indelible Fine Art
Indelible Fine Art offers a curated selection of Alan Davie works. Availability changes regularly — including works not always listed online — so if you’re looking for something specific, message us.
We can advise on editions, framing, shipping worldwide and collecting strategy across post-war British abstraction.
Available Alan Davie works
Works currently available at Indelible Fine Art. Click a piece for full details, sizes and pricing.
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