Helen Stokes
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Street Furniture (2015)

Inspired by majestically coloured polystyrene tubing protecting pedestrians from scaffolding poles on pavements, as spotted in Caernarfon and Finsbury Park.

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Finsbury Park (oil, watercolour, acrylic on panel, 16 x 20cm)

 
 

Lyrical figuration...

is what I would like to call this way of painting, if the phrase didn't sound so obscure. Inspired by contemporary painters such as Danny Markey, and early-ish Rothko works such as Entrance to subway (1938), and Richard Diebenkorn's 1970s paintings on cigar box lids.

 

Untitled (Street Furniture), oil and acrylic on panel, 2015

Rosemary Gardens I and II (gouache and watercolour on card, 14 x 11cm, 2015)