In these works is an order of geometry and measure but there is
another inexpressible order arising from intuition, glimpsed in reverie
and contemplation…’   

Translated & paraphrased excerpt from a Taller Torres-Garcia Manifesto

Four years studying art studies in USA introduced me to the 'isms' of sixties' art, and my instinct guided me to Op and 'Hard Edge'. When I returned to London and met British Constructivists I recognised the significance of my brief time with Jose Gurvich, Tutor at the Taller Torres Garcia. Almost without realizing it, I had absorbed the visionary idealism of the original Constructive movement. It permeated the Taller including  Gurvich, a Jewish refugee from Lithuania..

Constructivism in the UK and USA is widely misrepresented. Its formal strategies are seen as ‘empty formalism’, but to me these should be seen as no different from the explanations of composers and musicologists explaining, say, the intricacies of a Bach fugue. ‘How it is put together’ is only part of a whole which goes beyond the evident strategies.

TIDE TABLES

'These drawings are derived from figures for tidal levels at different sites. Coastal configurations modify the basic regularity of tidal rhythms so each drawing is a sort of individual portrait but always express a quality of ebb and flow.'

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In memorium SW
Oil 78 x 78 cm

Variations/Permutations
Oil  80 x 80 cm

"X" from Series XYZ
Oil  90 x 90 cm

"Y" from Series XYZ
Oil 90 x 90 cm

4 Modular Relief's  1987 - 1995