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G
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am still very involved with the ideas and motivations behind these paintings,
and I know there are a lot of 'things' in them that I want to return
to - work yet to be carried forward - they'll wait..
When they were first exhibited at St Davids Hall Cardiff I published a 10 page booklet which included a long essay about these paintings. |
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It
was a written attempt at finding what might be a 'common ground' in the
face of these 'abstract' paintings and relied quite heavily on the writings
of George Steiner in his book ' Real Presence'. I sent him a copy along with apologies for maybe misunderstanding some of his work. It was particularly satisfying to recieve a congratulatory note from him on the opening night. |
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Without
going into the ideas and various emotional circumstances that started
this series - technically, they are built on three spaces, a concave
space which is painted 'into' - a convex shape which is painted
'out of ' - and a flat plane, which is painted 'accross' or 'through'.
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