Blue Development (Indigo) no.1

Pasmore wrote, 'But there came a point where the surface projections could be extended no further, thus revealing a dimensional limitation in the relief analogous to that of painting ... With the dimensional problem removed a return to painting was essential if any further development in the field of independence was to be made on my part. If one uses tools, materials and processes organically in accordance with their intrinsic properties they will produce formations relative to these conditions. A return to painting meant a return to the fluid process of line, liquid paint, the paintbrush or the paint spray, thus producing an entirely different image from that of rigid construction, but still organic in process' (see 'The Transformation of Naturalist Art and the Independence of Painting', Victor Pasmore with a catalogue raisonné of the paintings, constructions and graphics 1926-1979, London, 1980, pp. 130, 132).