Organic abstract artworks go on show at theatre
Robin Gray's paintings have been
described by the art world as organic abstract in style.
Gray is mounting an exhibition at
Strode Theatre, in Street, from this Tuesday to Saturday, April 2.
The artist prefers to think of the
work and an instinctive response to his interests in natural history, geology,
and the worlds he has explored as a cave explorer and walker in the high
mountains.
This work has developed over a long
and successful career as a painter and teacher.
The first organic abstract appeared
in his first one-man show at Fairfield Halls, in Croydon in 1965 when the art
critic, Martin Thurston described the work as "dynamic doodles and dotty
drawings".
Since then the work has developed
into an easily recognisable style which is quite different to other abstract
paintings.
The work usually starts with a
background colour perhaps with an area of colour change somewhere in the middle
or to one side.
The colour may suggest a basic shape
from which to start, and from here the painting develops in an instinctive
manner where the next shape or colour is suggested by that preceding it.
The actual picture is produced
completely without a plan but his great knowledge of colour and composition
must also play an important role.
