In conjunction with Hope (Sufferance) Press, Flowers Graphics & Scolar Fine Art

7th June-19 July 2003

Prunella Clough, is one of the most important pioneers of British abstract art of the twentieth century. With Graham Sutherland and Colquhoun & MacBryde, she is recognised as one of the foremost artists of the British Neo-Romantic School.

Her subjects were closely observed details and scenes from the urban landscape: builders' yards, broken huts, discarded gloves in puddles, used carrier bags, a stack of trays in a self service cafe - each used as starting points to set off a visual reverie.

Objects appear as subtle clues to the memory of a scene. Presented as geometric forms in the landscape; a set of loosely stacked dishes become coloured curves or rusty wire is represented as dark looping lines.

This distillation and selection of forms moves the work towards abstraction whilst retaining the initial reference to landscape.

Recognised foremost as painter, Prunella Clough made a significant contribution to the art of printmaking throughout her long and distinguished career. Of this impressive body of graphic works, it is her etchings and monoprints that most powerfully capture the essence of her subject matter.

EP Director David Watt explains: "We are pleased that through collaboration with such distinguished galleries & publishers as Hope (Sufferance) Press, Flowers Graphics and Scolar Fine Art, we can show prints that represent the artist's changing and evolving concerns, throughout her long career. This ranges from the 1954 work Man in Factory, to the last prints that she made
in 1999 when she died on Boxing Day, aged 80. This is a unique opportunity to see such a fascinating range of prints by such an important C20th British artist."

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