John Virtue: The Sea

(Saturday) (Sunday)

This exhibition features a spectacular n­­ew body of work by this renowned British painter.  The nine canvases, 25 drawings and 70 sketchbooks, all executed in the last three years, will be displayed in Galleries 2 and 3.

 

The paintings are vast in scale and have a powerful presence, the black and white paint freely applied to the raw canvas surface with brushes, hands and rags.  Virtue works solely in black and white: all his paintings are executed on canvas, using white acrylic paint, black ink and shellac.  He abandoned colour – which he considers to be a distraction – for the monochrome palette that reveals the draughtsman as well as the painter.  

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
University of East Anglia
NR4 7TJ Norwich
United kingdom
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John Virtue: The Sea Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Main address: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts University of East Anglia NR4 7TJ Norwich, United kingdom Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts University of East Anglia NR4 7TJ Norwich, United kingdom

This exhibition features a spectacular n­­ew body of work by this renowned British painter.  The nine canvases, 25 drawings and 70 sketchbooks, all executed in the last three years, will be displayed in Galleries 2 and 3.

 

The paintings are vast in scale and have a powerful presence, the black and white paint freely applied to the raw canvas surface with brushes, hands and rags.  Virtue works solely in black and white: all his paintings are executed on canvas, using white acrylic paint, black ink and shellac.  He abandoned colour – which he considers to be a distraction – for the monochrome palette that reveals the draughtsman as well as the painter.  

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