Dick Spender Fine Art

Description

Oil on Canvas of Hayricks by Donald H Floyd (British 1892 - 1965). Signed and dated 1921.
Canvas in very good condition.

Donald Floyd was born on 18 April 1892 in Plymouth.He was educated at Blundells School in Tiverton. He trained under Frederick John Snell and John Noble Barlow for five years with such success that he was exhibiting at the Walker Art Gallery when he was 21. Snell who was the Art Master at Blundell's School taught him water colours whilst Barlow introduced him to the painting of the St Ives School of painting. After the second world War Floyd moved to the South wales border around Caldicot, Chepstow and finally Tintern.Floyd had 16 paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy as well as regular exhibits in the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and the Royal West of England Academy exhibitions.
He is known for his paintings around Monmouthshire including 250 of the Wye Valley. Floyd died in June 1965 he has paintings in Chepstow Museum,[1]Monmouth Museum,[3] Newport Museum[4] and the National Library of Wales.

This wonderful oil dated 1921 evokes the atmosphere of hay time when the cut grass or straw was stacked to dry. There is an evening glow about this picture looking across the field to houses and trees in the background.