Peter Daglish - Lady Francis and Other Works - 2006

At Winchester Galleries on Broad Street

Opening: Thursday, October 5, 2006 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Artist in attendance

Exhibition continues until October 28, 2006

Peter Daglish was born in 1930 in Gillingham, Kent, and resides in Wimbledon, London. He came to Canada in 1955 and from 1956 to 1960 studied art and pedagogy at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Montreal. In New York, Montreal and at the Slade School, London, he did post-graduate studies. An early teaching post which he took was at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1969-71. From 1973 to 1995 he taught printmaking at the Chelsea School of Art and from 1973 to 1996 printmaking and painting at the Slade. He has also given many courses in India.

Early in his career his forte was oil painting but he soon focused on linocuts and lithographs. Since 1985 he has also made fired enamel on steel panel. In reference to his content and style, London curator Donald Smith in the booklet 'Peter Daglish, Peaches in Havana', writes, 'For many years, Daglish and his wife, Marian, had a house in Seillans in the south of France. The bold forms of Fernand Leger, the colour of Henri Matisse, the surrealism of Max Ernst, and the striped, almost carved paintings of Pablo Picasso are all part of Daglish's psyche. This carved aspect in Picasso's work has its roots in African and Oceanic sculpture but, in Daglish's case, I also think of the ribbed rows of lavender flowing across the provencal landscape.'

Daglish's work is sensuous, humorous and technically virtuosic, states artist Eric Metcalfe. Jacques Hurtubise, artist, notes that 'the content of Daglish's work is deep, human, never cold. Daglish is very methodical, disciplined. His world is unique.' Artist/Professor Emeritus Don Harvey confers that Daglish is a truly remarkable printmaker and, as such, is arguably one of the greatest colourists since Matisse. As a jazz musician Daglish accesses a world of images which often takes in the rich and strident scene of jazz and the intriguing and vital society that goes with it.

Among the many public institutions owning artwork by Peter Daglish are the British Council, India and UK; the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, Le muse d'art contemporain de Montréal; the National Gallery of Canada; Portland Museum of Fine Art and the University of New Mexico.