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Anthony Gribbin paintings in the library, St.Ives, this month.
Anthony Gribbin’s work is a surprise in St.Ives. It’s the antithesis of what I call the Penwithy style
that is so prevalent - loose marks that vaguely refer to land or seascape.
Instead this artist works very neatly and precisely with abstract designs that play with overlapping
and spatial illusion and use flat unmodulated colours.
Some of the work is unusual shapes instead of the rectangle with which we are familiar. He has included information on his past exhibitions that indicates steady application.
In the library the geometrical shapes and lines of the paintings have a rather exhausting interplay of optical effects as they are too close for comfort together on the main wall. I would like to see them each given more space.
The play of flatness versus illusion is very clever and worth some time to experience its abstract fascination.
