150512 Tiny Red Shoes

Description

The vertical painting is divided into two uneven zones: a turquoise hooded figure occupies the upper right, while the lower half gathers pale, green and orange fragments around a dark arched shape. Small black figures and isolated red marks punctuate the lighter field.

12.05.15
oil on canvas
80X60

Authorial Comment

The artists remember being strongly affected by Palladio's architecture at the time. The Paul McCartney image is recalled as a formal operation rather than a reference whose Beatles-related meaning should determine the Work: a recognisable image used as part of the painting's grammar.

Exhibition view.

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Early Paintings

150507 The Man from VaranasiA large pale pink head-like form fills the upper half of the painting, bordered by yellow and dark brown. Below it, a dense blue-green and orange field contains a small blue hooded figure and a dark boat-like form.
150729On a pale vertical field, translucent blue, green, pink and ochre passages accumulate around the centre. A small blue hooded figure sits near the lower edge beneath a diffuse cluster of partially dissolved forms.