Alan Davie is one of Britain's most internationally acclaimed artists and is Scotland's most important artist of the twentieth century.
Throughout his life, Davie obsessively drew and paintied, producing paintings of startling originality, vitality and daring. Combining imagery derived from different world cultures with a love of music and language, Davie's paintings are a complex yet joyous celebration of creativity that combine the expressive freedom of abstraction with a wealth of signs, symbols and words.