Welcome to my website! Below is a brief snapshot of me:

Name: Frederick George Davis (known as George)

Occupation: Artist & Teacher

Location: Newton Abbot, Devon.

Here you can view a selection of my work, past and present. For the sake of simplicity I have grouped my paintings into three categories: People, Places & Thoughts.

Alternatively I create varied assemblage pieces from found materials; these are usually more playful, exploratory pieces.

Featured Painting: 'Gone Without a Trace'

An arrow with pinstripes points the way.

Artists Statement:

My recent paintings 2007/8 have mainly concentrated on short phrases or 'oneliners', things heard and overheard, platitudes and truisms, phrases seen, read and often taken for granted. 

These works are wistful and completive, aimed to pose questions rather than provide answers. There is a sprinkling of irony and the occasional hint of pathos, even the odd touch of wit about them.

The use of lettering on the works forms a bridge between the materials and the concept; sometimes these elements live in harmony with each other and occasionally contrast with the dictates of the pictorial elements.

The use of heavy textural effects, using collage of torn and cut fabric, paper, card and other materials, is a way in which the substrate can interact with the successive layers of application providing actual as well as illusions of depth.

I see these recent paintings as 'starting points' which feed and react with the imagination through the combination of sensory and cerebral responses.

To explain it more succinctly, the words don’t just sit on the surface, they form an integral part of the composition and help you to take a journey into your own store of memories and associations.