NH470‘Two Deckchairs’18 x 18 inches 45.5 x 45.5 cm Acrylic on Canvas 2015
This is in part a study in complementary colours, Blue and Orange and also Red andGreen, most clearly, but also in a much more subdued way, Yellow and Purple. It also sets aprimary group of chair struts which are positioned from upper left to lower right in contrast to asecondary set of struts orientated from upper right to lower left. A further compositional device isthe orange chair fabric stripe, which wanders from the top left corner to the bottom right corner.