Artist: Alan Davie (Scottish, 1920–2014)
Title:Frog Magic
Year: 1968
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 53 × 76 cm
Presentation: Framed
Description : Alan Davie’s Frog Magic (1968) is a vibrant work on paper that captures the celebrated Scottish artist’s instinctive and highly distinctive visual language. Bold areas of colour are combined with playful, symbolic forms, abstract figures and energetic mark-making, creating a composition that feels both spontaneous and carefully balanced.
Davie drew inspiration from mythology, ancient cultures, jazz and the subconscious, developing a unique vocabulary of signs and symbols that became central to his work. In Frog Magic, vivid greens, blues, reds and yellows interact with curious creature-like forms and graphic motifs, giving the work an almost ritualistic, dreamlike quality.
Created in 1968, during an important period in Davie’s career, the work is a striking example of the freedom, imagination and experimentation for which he became internationally recognised.
Artist: Alan Davie (Scottish, 1920–2014)
Title:Frog Magic
Year: 1968
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 53 × 76 cm
Presentation: Framed
Description : Alan Davie’s Frog Magic (1968) is a vibrant work on paper that captures the celebrated Scottish artist’s instinctive and highly distinctive visual language. Bold areas of colour are combined with playful, symbolic forms, abstract figures and energetic mark-making, creating a composition that feels both spontaneous and carefully balanced.
Davie drew inspiration from mythology, ancient cultures, jazz and the subconscious, developing a unique vocabulary of signs and symbols that became central to his work. In Frog Magic, vivid greens, blues, reds and yellows interact with curious creature-like forms and graphic motifs, giving the work an almost ritualistic, dreamlike quality.
Created in 1968, during an important period in Davie’s career, the work is a striking example of the freedom, imagination and experimentation for which he became internationally recognised.
