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FLIGHTPATH | ||
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Balance | Casting Off | |||||||||||||
Coming Down | ||||||||||||||
oil on canvas 56 x 40 cm | oil on canvas 75 x 80 cm | |||||||||||||
oil on canvas 56 x 40 cm | ||||||||||||||
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presented by the artist to the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry 2008 | |||||
Spiral | |||||
oil on canvas 90 x 60 cm | |||||
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These paintings are part of a set of about fifteen, painted after a family visit to a playground in Hounslow under the London Airport flightpath. The children are oblivious of the huge planes which both menace the environment but at the same time promise a kind of freedom, an escape from the banality of the city | ||
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