item details
NameStudio
ProductionAnne Redpath; artist; 1959
Classificationoil paintings
Materialsoil paint, hardboard
Materials Summaryoil on board
DimensionsImage: 1010mm (height), 1516mm (length)
Registration Number1961-0009-1
Credit linePurchased 1961
Overview
Anne Redpath wrote in 1961 that Studio expressed ‘quite a lot of what I seem to be … trying to do with my painting’:
I shall never be … an abstract painter because I like my ‘things’ too much to lose them altogether ... my own problem, as I see it, is using the excitement I feel about the colour and texture and shape of things as a point of departure into something that is almost abstract and which is therefore a more absolute and permanent beauty than a mere representation could ever be.