Anthony Daley, Swan Painting VI, 1989
£ 2,500
Overview
Anthony Daley’s Swan Paintings encapsulate the artist’s interest in nature, abstraction and the materiality of paint. The expansive series is celebrated in the light-filled windows of our Kingsland Road space.
Born in 1960 in Jamaica and based in London since he was seven, Daley recalls his first memory of wanting to paint: “I was four. I was in the bushes across the river from where I lived. It had rained and I looked up to the sky with the light coming through. It was the start of a love affair. I just wanted to paint it, to draw it.”
The Swan Paintings are a collection of brightly-filled canvases, packed with rich brushstrokes exploring the unseen world of the majestic bird. The portrayal of the swans bridges figuration and abstraction, with the animals thickly outlined in a deep galvanizing blue. The British painter J.M.W. Turner’s influence on Daley’s colour palette manifests itself through his concentrated use of sublime light and condensed colour. The swans' bodies flawlessly blend with the surrounding soft pinks, purples, yellows, oranges and reds of the bursting floral scene. Although the content and colours are similar throughout the paintings, the swan begins to dominate more of the picture plane, highlighting its grand size and strength.
Each painting is a method of self-discovery with Daley engrossed predominantly with the surface and intensity of paint. These enigmatic and electrifying works are not a reflection of the artist’s account of his own life. Instead, the series is an exercise in exploration and innovative revelations, an amalgamation of the boundless prospect of paint with the internal unconsciousness of the artist’s actions, resulting in the endless possibilities of the unknown realm of the psyche.
portrait of Anthony Daley by Antonio Parente, 2022
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Anthony Daley studied at Leeds University, Wimbledon College, and Chelsea College of Art, and in 1984 was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Painting Fellowship. His work is represented in numerous collections including Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, where a 2022 exhibition explored Daley's career-long fascination with the work of 17th-century Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.
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