Tonight I was at the opening night of Alan Stewart's exhibition at St Mary Hertingfordbury. It was a well attended evening and Alan's work proved popular with those who came. The exhibition continues tomorrow at 4.00pm.
I was impressed once again with the fluency of Alan's mark making. He possesses an intuitive ability to make right choices as he applies charcoal or pastels, an ability which is seen most clearly when his work is at its most minimal and every mark matters. He consistently blurs the borders between figuration and abstraction, an approach which he has also carried over into recent experiments with oils. This exhibition, with its landscape focus, was at the commercial end of Alan's work and included work of abstract beauty and evocative minimalism.
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Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal.
