Ian Davenport

Ian Davenport was born in Sidcup, Kent, United Kingdom 1966, and has for over 20 years made paintings by pouring paint onto a tilted surface, known as his colorful "puddle" paintings. To make them, the artist meticulously pours hundreds of thin acrylic lines down a canvas, and they artfully pool and swerve at the bottom. Driven by an enduring fascination with the materiality of paint, he goes to work using his signature technique, which delivers elegant vertical lines cascading down the panels into rich puddles of color.

Ian Davenport studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art in London and graduated in 1988, the same year he featured in the "Freeze" exhibition curated by fellow Young British Artist Damien Hirst. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1991.