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237 Lisburn Road, Belfast
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BT9 7EN, Northern Ireland
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Rowland Davidson
"In a
picture, I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
I want to paint men and women
with that something of the eternal which the
halo used to symbolise." Vincent Van Gogh.
Rowland Davidson,D.A.,N.D.D.,A.T.D. was born in
Belfast in 1942. He studied Fine Art at Belfast College of Art, having among his tutors the artists John
Luke and Tom Carr. In 1968 he graduated and spent several years teaching Art and Design at Belfast boys'
school, becoming Head of Department in 1975.
It was in 1981 that he began to paint seriously again
and, in 1987, he felt the time had come to give up teaching in order to research and develop his art
more fully.
Since then he has exhibited widely throughout Ireland, having had several one-man
and group shows. His work has also been used in publications such as book jackets, calenders and prints.
Davidson's painting, inspired by artists such as Rembrandt, Degas, Van Gogh, Auerbach and Kokoschka,
is figurative, often showing domestic interiors but always demonstrating a love of light.
C.S.
Lewis explained the right way to look at a great work of art when he said: "We sit down before a picture
in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of
art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive."
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