Exhibition
The Abstract Hinterland
5 Oct 2007 – 17 Nov 2007
Address
- The Town Hall Galleries
- Cornhill
- Ipswich
- IP1 1DH
- United Kingdom
Event map
by ADRIAN RYAN (1920 -1998)
About
Figurative, sometimes naïve, rich with integrity, rich in paint ' this is the blend which characterizes the work of this essentially local painter, whose grandfather once owned Hintlesham Hall where he spent much of his childhood.His work has been widely shown and is in many distinguished public and private collections, but it has not been exhibited in Ipswich until now.
Still life and landscape are chief among the subjects represented ' things which everyone can understand ' but all are tinged with some hint of contrasting abstraction that prevailed from the 1950s onwards and which Adrian Ryan, unlike his contemporaries, rejected overall.
Instead the paintings are a true colourist's clever fusion of opposing ideas which demonstrate how paint, in the hands of a quiet maestro, can be made to speak harmoniously.
