Francis Davison had originally intended to become a poet, but after Cambridge was invited to go to St Ives by his former school friend Patrick Heron. Here he met Margaret Mellis and, encouraged by her, he started painting and drawing. In 1950 Francis, Margaret and her son Telfer Stokes moved to Suffolk. Davison’s Suffolk paintings are inspired by the surrounding landscape, with fields and houses distilled to simplified and geometrical forms in black, brown and white. In 1952 Davison gave up painting and for the next 20 years concentrated on collage, creating a distinctive and original body of work which was later to inspire a young Damien Hirst.
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Anna Dixon-Smith studied at St Martins School of Art, and later at the Royal Drawing School and Ipswich School of Art. Her paintings are often intimate portraits of her everyday surroundings, using flowers from her garden and objects gathered from around her home. She is drawn to painting interiors and the gentle everyday rhythm of the house captured at a particular moment in time. Although the figure is usually absent, there is a sense of someone having been there. Anna lives in Suffolk and works primarily in oil and collage.
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