We bought another Artwork at the weekend: this is it.
It is in fact a print, number 95 of 95 . . . the very last
one.
Don’t suppose anyone has ever heard of Nerys. I met her
once when she was Curator of the DLI in Durham. From memory she was in a
wheelchair at that time, she was quite ill for sure. Someone gave us two of her
original paintings; I didn’t really appreciate them at the time to be honest
but they must have been easily worth £1000.00ea then; £3000.00 plus now.
Briget Riley was her contemporary and is on record as
describing her as a master of colour.
Nerys herself said of her work: ‘For a long time, flowers
have been a major source of inspiration for my work. They are alive, and I try
to convey that sense of living. They grow, change, decay and metamorphose. In a
drawing, the sense of movement, structure and rhythms is expressed through the
marks and lines; in a painting, this is achieved through the balance and
contrasts of colour. Whether the flowers are grouped in a riotous bunch or
[shown] singly, my aim is to reveal the particular feeling of that image - a
potent lily, a burst of spring or the battered remains of winter’.
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