Joan G Edwards - the work
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A breakthrough painting: Woodland Path to the Sea (1985) gouache, 240 x 160 mm private collection, Australia Considered by the artist as marking a step forward towards a personal style, this small gouache was developed from the surface markings on a pebble, still conserved in the artist's studio. |
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Tree Fantasy - Mask (1986) gouache, 413 x 286 mm private collection, U.K. from just a year later shows the considerable evolution towards the construction of images which are independent of the observed natural forms behind them |
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Tree of Life I (1988) gouache, 597 x 406 mm private collection, Switzerland The completed version of the work shown on the presentation page, this larger painting sets a rich combination of viscerally evocative elements - articulations of bone, a suggestion of wings, human profiles - against the power of natural forces. |
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Seawards Blows the Wind (1995) gouache, 445 x 700 mm private collection, U.K. A return to a much more figurative language for this lyrical painting from seven years later. |
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Autumn Palm (1990) gouache, 607 x 387 mm private collection, U.K. A palm tree fuses with an African dancer in the foreground of this deliberately non-literal suggestion of a Cornish valley and beach, of village houses, cliffs and many other elements. One notes also the very conscious control of colour. |
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Entrance to a Bay III (1997) gouache, 324 x 654 mm collection of the artist Typical of a number of 'landscapes' which are much less straightforward than they at first appear, thanks to the subtlety with which multiple horizons and viewpoints or other contradictory elements are integrated. |
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