Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist avoids traditional proportions to contain the colours, which in this way subsist in a world of their own doing. A particularly contentious aspect of this work is the arena of contrasting pepper and the dualistic essense of unreality contrasting strongly with the gently contorted quickly flying articulations to indicate the essential difference between pattern and texture. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work...
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114]