OLIVER BEVAN |
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FLIGHTPATH |
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Balance |
Casting Off |
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Coming Down |
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oil on canvas 56 x 40 cm |
oil on canvas 75 x 80 cm |
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oil on canvas 56 x 40 cm |
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presented by the artist to the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry 2008 |
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Spiral |
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oil on canvas 90 x 60 cm |
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These paintings are part of a set of about fifteen, painted after a family visit to a playground in Hounslow under the London Airport flightpath. The children are oblivious of the huge planes which both menace the environment but at the same time promise a kind of freedom, an escape from the banality of the city |
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