Albert Irvin

Holyrood

Screenprint. 117cm x 85cm.  Limited Edition of 95
Hand signed by artist bottom right.  Framed

Albert Irvin’s energetic paintings are among the most celebrated works of British Abstract Expressionism. Irvin was admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1998; in 2013 he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to British art.

Irvin’s early works depicted abstracted landscapes and still life. Influenced by the Abstract Expressionist style taking hold in New York, however, he soon developed a more gestural style. In the 1970s he began using a large squeegee to swipe acrylic paint across his canvases and create wide colour bars, and he took up screen printing in the 1980s, a medium he would continue to work in for the rest of his life.