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David Evans (1929–1988) - Up in the Air

Up in the Air, circa 1960

David Evans

The discovery by Liss Llewellyn of David Evans studio in 2016 resulted in a retrospective at The Young Gallery in Salisbury, in 2018, and the publication of a monograph on David Evans, reproducing for the first time over 100 works spanning his entire career. The introduction will be written by the musician Pete Gage, a friend of Evans best known as the vocalist from the pop group Dr Feelgood.

Early in his career Evans showed photo-montages at fashionable London restaurants such as Gallery One and gained several commissions. These included a design for the Hollywood Room in the Observer Film Exhibition, 1956, and a mural for the Soup Kitchen, Knightsbridge. Until recently Evans early work remained unrecorded – its rediscovery allows for a fuller understanding of his development as an artist.

Alan Sorrell - Self Portrait

Self Portrait, Nov 1928

Alan Sorrell

Sorrell undertook this self-portrait one month after he had arrived in Rome to take up his two-year scholarship, and it shows him in his downstairs studio at the British School. The self-portrait makes a bold statement and the quality of draughtsmanship and commanding composition make it one of the most striking works that Sorrell produced in Rome.
The intensely observed and sharply delineated drawing of the folds and other forms demonstrate a study of Masaccio and Piero della Francesca and other Italian Renaissance masters. Sorrell’s presentation of himself is introspective and melancholic, reflecting his state of mind during these early days in Rome.

WWII: Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Gliders at Pegasus Bridge, July 1944

Eric Wilfred Taylor
Joseph Simpson - Portrait of D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Portrait of D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Joseph Simpson


This is the last recorded published portrait of D.H. Lawrence, illustrated in The Sunday Dispatch, 17.02.1929, the year before Lawrence died, at the age of 45.




Illustrated: The Sunday Dispatch, 17.02.1929




David Herbert Richards “D. H.” Lawrence (1885 ‚Äì 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation.