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The family paintings started out as archetypal images of a family, but developed to inhabit more structured spaces suggestive of a contemporary environment. All the paintings were improvised, and these were like laboratory paintings for me. The thick over-worked surfaces bear the signs of the struggle I was having to evolve my own way of picture making. In retrospect, I can see my pictorial interest in relationships, people and contemporary space emerging through this series of paintings. They also represented a technical change in my way of working, using gloss paint, and laying the canvas on the floor - a technique that was introduced to me by the painter, John Kiki.
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Family 8
Oil on canvas
122 x 183cm
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Family 7
Oil on canvas
122 x 153cm
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Family 6
Oil on canvas
122 x 146cm
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Family 4
Oil on canvas
142 x 81cm
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Family 3
Oil on canvas
140 x 140cm
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Conversation at table
Oil on canvas
122 x 153cm
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Mother and baby
Oil on board
115 x 84cm
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Boy and bird
Oil on canvas
76 x 61cm
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Family 1
Oil on canvas
115 x 160cm
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