robert woolner (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Signed by author. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The paintings collected in this book were made by Rob Woolner between 2000 and 2016 in his studio in the Blackmore Vale in North Dorset. The geographical specificity seems important. These works are not directly figurative but they are, nonetheless, clearly grounded in a deep engagement with the artist's physical environment: a textured and worked landscape of limestone, clay, greensand, water, and the accumulated scars and scratchings that millennia of human and animal habitation have inscribed onto the surface of the earth. To visit Woolner's studio is to understand how much of his work is built up in the same organic way, and even out of the same materials. Bits of bone, rusted metal, wire, fossils, seashells lie around the light-filled room, a former farm building whose use might have changed but whose function as a working space has not. Paintings in various stages of completion are hanging on the walls or stacked against them. The smaller constructions or assemblages in low relief that he ref.