John Virtue: New Work, 1998-2000

1997 John Virtue abstract Acrylic activity Angeles John Virtue arrangement of drawings Art Gallery artists aspects austere began black ink boy's canal-side colour Constable constantly cross-hatching Curator current exhibition deeper Devon dismantle Drips emulation emulsion on canvas engage evocation Exe Estuary flat genre Green Haworth images imagination impression inspired instinct isolation Jason & Rhodes LA Louver Gallery Lancashire landscape painters landscape subject landscape tradition Lisson Gallery London travelled Louver Gallery magisterial monochromatic mosaic-like motif Moved to Exeter Moved to South Newlyn obscure owls paint landscape particular passage Paul Moorhouse picturesque PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY poet describes Prelude preoccupied progressive removal reinvent relationship renew responsiveness to nature reveal River Exe Romantic Ruisdael and Koninck Saints Selected Poems sense shapes shellac sketchbooks South Tawton space Spacex Gallery stance studio subversion surface surroundings sustained Tate St Ives tower turbulence viewer Virtue's art visible world walking and drawing white gouache Wordsworth