Ivor’s Garden by Deborah Lanyon

Description

Deborah Lanyon’s semi-abstract paintings come from a generation of artists, mostly men, including John Hoyland, Frank Bowling, Howard Hodgkin and Sean Scully.  Like those artists, she works rapidly and physically with canvases positioned on the floor, letting the paint have its own voice.  Yet the feminine subtleties give the work interest and difference from those of the male painters in this genre.  The paintings are the voice of a woman and a reflection of her personality: physical but effortless; dynamic yet soft; harmonious and rhythmic. When she visits a place, she uses all her senses: sound, smell, taste and touch to dictate to the paint, which are sometimes painted in-situ or done from memory on the floor of her studio.