Modern British Art: Works on Paper
Past exhibition
From the 1970s, Hanley created paintings dedicated to a small stretch of undulating fields in Royston, Hertfordshire. Reflecting upon the landscape, Hanley comments, ‘The land has a mysterious quality for me. Like sculpture it can be looked at time and again from many angles and still produce surprises. Sometimes the shapes are sculptural, as graceful as human forms, and diminutive versions of these shapes repeat themselves in the flint stones that the plough turns up each year.’ (L. Hanley, Two Square Miles, Thackeray Gallery, London, 1982).
