"Carlyle/Miami Beach; lithograph and screenprint in colours, signed, titled, dated 1985 and numbered 6/100 in pencil.

A stunning image which is a combination of architectural drawing - elevations, section views of The Astor, Miami Beach (an Art Deco building) executed with a Postmodern flourish.  The study of the anatomy of the building, makes the viewer look at the different parts of it and analyse it, the whole producing an image that is both artwork and architectural in one.

Richard Davies was born on the Isle of Wight in 1944. He studied first at the Portsmouth College of Art where he was awarded a painting scholarship which enabled him to travel extensively in Europe. He later graduated to the Royal College of Art where he concentrated on printmaking. While at the Royal College he also spent some time studying in Paris at the Cite International des Arts and he worked in the studio of M. Jean Jacque de Broutelle. He has worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the London College of Printing and since 1983 has been the Head of Printmaking in the School of Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art. The work of Richard Davies has been exhibited widely in both group and one-man shows and is represented in the collections of The British Council, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, The Imperial War Museum and The Royal Academy of Arts as well as in private collections worldwide.