An introduction to David Carlyle Platts (1940-2024)
David was a British artist and designer whose striking aesthetic sensibility and technical virtuosity deserve wider recognition within 20th-century British art. After an early career in graphic design and advertising, he studied at the Royal College of Art (1967–70), later returning to Yorkshire to combine teaching with a prolific studio practice.
Working across drawing, painting and printmaking, his art moved between abstraction and figuration, most memorably in his celebrated 1970s ‘Strawberry Series’, exhibited at Sheffield’s Mappin Art Gallery. Warm, generous and quietly determined, David remained dedicated to his craft throughout his life, producing a singular and deeply personal body of work.
This new website aims to showcase and celebrate the artist’s fascinating life and significant creative legacy, and to promote projects developed by his Estate. A retrospective exhibition of David’s work is in development and will open in spring 2026.
“
My work has alway had
a close link with nature…
and the the predicament
we face in life. I’ve been
making pieces that I hope
are profound… some leave
an impression… some are
just beautiful, but I hope
they’re all saying something
from my life experience.”
David Platts
Interview for Silver Pride, July 2020
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Recent developments from the official estate of David Carlyle Platts
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Strawberry series
Original screenprints from the ‘Strawberry Series‘ by David Carlyle Platts now available online for the first time The official estate of the late artist David Carlyle Platts has today opened public sales of original prints from his acclaimed ‘Strawberry Series’ from the early 1970s), offering collectors a rare chance to own work from one of
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A first glimpse of Bush Cottage and the studio.
A new short film reveals the restored home and studio of artist David Carlyle Platts. This exclusive glimpse comes via a short video produced by filmmaker Paul Harker of Jugganort Films, providing a tour of the restored interiors where David lived and worked. For many admirers of his art, it marks the first opportunity to
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Welcome to the new David Carlyle Platts website
Welcome to the new website honouring the memory and legacy of artist David Carlyle Platts. Following David’s sad passing in June 2024, it has been the ambition of his official estate to preserve his legacy, restore the cottage and barn and show David’s later works, which are as yet unseen by the public. David left
