New Work
ROB SHERWOOD
133 Copeland Road, Peckham
The works exhibited were inspired by an Anna Mahler International Association residency in the Italian town of Spoleto. Here the artist experienced first-hand the frescoes of Giotto and found himself in the Umbrian studio of Sol LeWitt. The combination of the two significantly influenced his approach to the practice of painting.
The outcome was a useful exercise - a series of drawings tested an internal logic of pattern and progression. A similar logic taken into the action of painting forced the artist to focus on the particular operations of colour, texture and movement in the application of oil paint to canvas.
The tests this exercise proposed are part of the ebb and flo of the painter's progress. They have been extensively addressed by this body of work.
