After The Fire
SUBC13European School
c.1955–1970
Oil and mixed media
Art Informel / post-war abstraction
A painting that seems to have been built, destroyed and built again.
Layers are scraped back. Shapes disappear beneath other shapes. Ochre, rust, smoke, stone and fragments of green emerge through a heavily worked surface that feels closer to a wall than a canvas.
It belongs to the post-war European language of Art Informel, where the physical act of painting became part of the subject itself. From across the room it suggests a ruined landscape.