PAUL JENKINS (1923 - 2012)
Paul Jenkins' gestural spontaneity of paint handling
used veils of transparent colour to create an unmodified
immediacy of expression. The rich, strong colour and poured
application linked Jenkins to Morris Louis, soon to become an
internationally recognised Washington expressionist. If the
ease of execution of these Americans poured from sublime
springs then Scott's European roots obliged a more considered,
textured and heavily worked manner informed by Art Brut and
the historical tradition. While liberated in terms of scale, texture
and abstraction by his American exposure Scott retained the
laboured ethos of a venerable European still life tradition which
did not, however, preclude a feeling for the primitive, atavistic
and anthropomorphic.
Peter Davies
Phenomena Tracker, 1963
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, titled and dated verso
46 x 27.5 cm; 18 x 10 ¾ in
Provenance:
William Scott, direct from the artist
Mary Scott, hence by descent
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