ANTHONY GREEN

Everyday Adventures with Anthony, His Family and the Flowers

5- 28th March

Anthony Green RA will be talking about his work on Tuesday 10th March from 6.30pm

Anthony Green is well known for his irregularly shaped, highly eccentric paintings with distorted or conflicting perspectives. His subject matter is often humorous, depicting himself, his wife or other members of his family having everyday adventures in or around his home. 

The Bureau, Afternoon Sun, 163 x 122cm

Many of his works have a dreamlike quality as in ‘The Staircase - Roses’ (left) where the artist is shown in mid air showering flowers onto his wife, with his reflection in the nearby mirror showing a younger version of himself. These scenes are reminiscent of daydreams or visions of an alternative reality, free from the limitations of space and time.
 

Green’s use of the pictorial space in his work reflects the way in which we view space around us, not confined by square edges or a single viewpoint as in traditional painting.

Painted onto board which is sometimes specifically shaped to the work, these paintings occupy a territory on the boundary between painting and sculpture.

Sunflowers on Margaret's Trestle Table, 94 x 109cm

Resembling pieces of a giant jigsaw, they give the viewer a sense of being shown a small piece of a larger ongoing narrative, or a glimpse into the fantastically chaotic world continually playing out inside the artist’s mind.

To see the full online catalogue for the exhibition, visit the gallery website