Children's Swimming Pool

Paul Moorhouse comments, 'A number of other motifs which have engaged Kossoff over the last thirty years can also be found in close proximity to his studio. The swimming pool that he drew and painted from the mid-1960s to 1972 is a short distance away in north Willesden. The convolution of railway lines at Willesden Junction, a recurrent landscape subject in the early 1960s, also lies within a couple of miles of his home. At that time his studio was located at Willesden Junction, giving an even more immediate vicinity to the motif ... By finding his subjects close to where he works, Kossoff has been able to forge a dialogue with his environment and then return immediately to the studio where these experiences, still vivid, can be recreated and reinvented' (Leon Kossoff, Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, London, 1996, p. 9).