Lighthouse Blue Sky

© the artist/courtesy Flowers Gallery, London and New York. Image credit: Dorset County Hospital

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Renny Tait's painting for Dorset County Hospital takes the Portland Bill Lighthouse as its inspiration - a new kind of building for the artist. Because of his unusual use of perspective, the viewer is given no clues to the building’s scale. It is as if we are looking through a telephoto lens, not knowing if we see the building itself or a miniature model of it. Tait treats his subject like a still life, as he would a collection of objects on a shelf, simplifying and distilling the form to find its abstract and permanent qualities. The highly-finished surface seems to shimmer like satin. The painting is one of 20 commissions by contemporary artists in the public spaces of Dorset County Hospital and is part of the ‘Bringing the Outside In’ project.

Dorset County Hospital

Dorchester

Title

Lighthouse Blue Sky

Date

1999

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 153 x W 153 cm

Accession number

PCF22

Acquisition method

commissioned with the assistance of the Arts Council Lottery, 1999

Work type

Painting

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