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After Mondrian - Composition

Oil on canvas - (76cm x 66cm)

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"Abstraction in my drawing-pads influenced by schoolwork - mainly because the art teacher Mr. Bradley, so taken with American abstraction, promoted it in class. Work of Europeans who had moved to America, such as Mondrian, was leant upon too, learned from. British landscape hardly featured.

I left school in 1971 with two ‘O’ levels; Art and ‘Technical Drawing’, predictable. I had an interview at college with a view to pursuing the profession of Technical- Illustration - a natural career to consider. But I didn’t. I had a feeling of uncertainty from somewhere. Starting a career in Technical Illustration would result in me having to leave home to live in digs while attending college either in faraway Preston or Barrow. Dad had prepared me to be self-reliant, I wasn’t. His decent strategy had partly resulted in some clinginess. It was ironic. He pushed I pulled."