Lot Essay
'Rise and Fall is based on green, blue and pink ... The colours blend into one another without visible transitions; the paint surface is thin, impersonal, meticulously worked over ... The result is that you read these paintings, not as solid forms, but as metaphors of light energy. They generate a strong illusion of warped space and the speed with which one's eye travels over the canvas, around the coils of the spectrum band, encountering different resistances from different colours, is important to the illusion' (B. Robertson, Exhibition catalogue, The New Generation, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1966, p. 70).
Gadsby comments on his work:
'The images and shapes in my paintings have no conscious organic foundation; they primarily operate as a frame in which colour can be manipulated and unfurled into a system of activity' (ibid., p. 74).
Gadsby comments on his work:
'The images and shapes in my paintings have no conscious organic foundation; they primarily operate as a frame in which colour can be manipulated and unfurled into a system of activity' (ibid., p. 74).