Original Mid-Century Oil Painting
Colin Davies (British, b.1934) — Oil — “A Continental Landscape”
Expressive modern British landscape in oil on board; signed lower right
Key Details
Artist: Colin Davies (British, b.1934)
Title: “A Continental Landscape”
Medium: Oil
Support: On board
Signature: Signed lower right “Davies”
Dimensions: Image: 50 × 60 cm (19.7 × 23.6 in);
Framed: approx. 64 × 74 cm (25.2 × 29.1 in)
Condition: Excellent – clean surface, stable impasto, secure frame with minor age wear only.
Provenance: William Shannon Fine Art, Edinburgh. From a private collection.
Description
A richly textured and atmospheric mid-century landscape by
Colin Davies (b.1934), a British painter active during the 1960s–1970s. Executed in oil on board, this expressive composition depicts rolling hills and distant dwellings under a moody sky, rendered in confident impasto and subtle tonal shifts.
Davies’ work bridges post-war Scottish and English modernism, combining architectural structure with expressive brushwork. His paintings from this period are closely aligned with the Modern British movement that emerged from the 1950s and 60s London art scene.
About the Artist
Colin Davies (British, b.1934) painted actively through the 1960s–1970s. His practice sits within post-war British modernism, blending a measured, architectural sense of structure with expressive, textural brushwork. Works from this period align closely with the Modern British movement associated with the 1950s–60s London art scene.
Estimated Date
Circa 1965–1975
Provenance & Notes
Exhibited at
The Furneaux Galleries, Wimbledon, London:
Summer Exhibition 1966
(28 July – 10 August 1966). Private-view catalogue held in the
Tate Library, London, listed as
Summer Exhibition 1966: Featuring Work by Colin Davies
(Furneaux Galleries, 1966). Later handled by
William Shannon Fine Art, Edinburgh.
Related works include
Le Tréport Near Dieppe
(dated 1975) and
Kent – Foreshore
(sold Mark Hill Auctions, Jan 2025). A further painting by Davies,
Marshland Evening
(1963), is held in the public collection of the London Borough of Camden.
