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This exhibition compares how the 'subject' translates into imagery over this generational period. Instantly, the pure invention of mark making is apparent, as fresh tides of paint leaps out of a Francis canvas to embrace the viewer with a playful sense of vitality, or interlaced gestures vibrates in a Stewart painting with a spectacular array of sprayed, splattered, poured and drawn marks. Then compare both to the imposing and well-orchestrated Hoyland images, where one single motif shimmers over a deep pool of infinite luminous colour. The viewer will be enticed by such emotive passages of paint, responding to a way of communicating that is not recognisable in a conventional sense but is more intuitive; living the artists' experience and their relationship to the time in which they belong.
When fashion dictates that we avoid direct emotional commitment to the subject, these three speak out. The legacy of Abstract Expressionism lives on, as vital, honest, pure and above all inventive as it ever was. Through the physicality of the paint; saturated, splattered, poured, piped, twisted and squeezed, emerges an image, a spectacular metaphor of our emotive response to the world around us.
7th - 29th March at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
