Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Untitled, 1995
Ink and watercolour on card
7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in / 19 x 26 cm
Signed and dated ‘W. Barns Graham/July 1995’ (lower right)
Created in 1995 Untitled forms a part of Barns-Graham’s linear ‘small energy’ drawing series: an abstract theme that began in 1975 and was re-visited over many years of her artistic...
Created in 1995 Untitled forms a part of Barns-Graham’s
linear ‘small energy’ drawing series: an abstract theme that began in 1975 and
was re-visited over many years of her artistic practice. Away from her work
made up of geometric blocks and shapes, she developed these softer, linear wave
patters to explore movement and rhythm more deeply. She commented: ‘For a
session of drawing, I may exclusively use linear ideas; an abstraction of what
has been observed, first drawing a grid, building up a rhythm to allow the
unexpected as curves or wave lines encouraging imagination and becoming
creative. These rhythms suggest flowing forms, water, grass and wind movements,
or lines for the pleasure of themselves. Paul Klee suggests, ‘We take a walk
with a line’. (W. Barns-Graham quoted in exhibition catalogue Drawings,
Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, 1992).
This work is recorded as '11/95/1' by the artist's estate.
linear ‘small energy’ drawing series: an abstract theme that began in 1975 and
was re-visited over many years of her artistic practice. Away from her work
made up of geometric blocks and shapes, she developed these softer, linear wave
patters to explore movement and rhythm more deeply. She commented: ‘For a
session of drawing, I may exclusively use linear ideas; an abstraction of what
has been observed, first drawing a grid, building up a rhythm to allow the
unexpected as curves or wave lines encouraging imagination and becoming
creative. These rhythms suggest flowing forms, water, grass and wind movements,
or lines for the pleasure of themselves. Paul Klee suggests, ‘We take a walk
with a line’. (W. Barns-Graham quoted in exhibition catalogue Drawings,
Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews, 1992).
This work is recorded as '11/95/1' by the artist's estate.
Provenance
Private collection, UK (purchased at the 2018 exhibition)Exhibitions
Aberfeldy, The Watermill Gallery, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Rhythms of Colour: Late Paintings and Prints, September 2018 - January 2019, n.p., exhibition not numbered, illustrated.1
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