[PR] Jasper Deane, 'Colour Research 1980 - 2006' 

This exhibition represents more than 25 years of sustained research into the use of colour by Jasper Deane.

Finding himself dissatisfied with the dominant Newtonian approach to understanding colour, the artist embarked upon on a practical course of study, looking to artists and philosophers including Heraclitus, Aristotle, Polygnotos, Theophilus and Da Vinci; and to later writers including Goethe and Steiner, as his tutors.

“I developed an interest in tradition and, through persistent study of art from Polygnotos to Juan Gris I began to discern that colour could be used in a systematic and meaningful way that appeared theoretical and not the product of mere ‘self expression’. Thus began my interest in discovering the relationships between colour and form that I perceived to lie beneath the composition and method of the artists that I admired. I was not satisfied with imitating, in a mimetic way, prior art, but was ultimately trying to find for myself a convincing formal use of colour that had previously eluded me.”

Jasper Deane, July 2006

The resulting drawings, paintings and sketches are pure research documents that record the artists deeply idiosyncratic creative praxis. The work also has an exceptionally strong aesthetic value in its own right.

This is the first time that the collection has been exhibited publicly and the occasion will be marked by the publication of a catalogue to document the work.

Jasper Deane lives and works in London.

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The exhibition will be open from 12 noon – 6pm, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or at other times by prior appointment. A private view will be held on Thursday 20th July, 6 – 9pm.

Jasper Deane will be giving a talk about the work in the show on Thursday 27th July at 7pm.

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Kate Enters on tel: +44 (0)20 7792 3306 | Kateenters@gmail.com