Moths on a Blue Path

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Michael Wishart was the nephew of Kathleen Garman, who donated the collection to Walsall. Wishart’s work is mostly abstract and he uses colours to express the memories of his childhood daydreams: 'My first memory is Blue. Pale, lactescent, this colour hung like a tarpaulin stretched above the orchard of my infancy during those long, apparently endless hot summers.' The artist claims that this 'blue' had the power to alleviate his insomnia, which he suffered from in later life. He would lie stretched beneath this blue, for hours, contemplating infinity: an exercise which, he says, caused his head to ache; sending pains like shooting stars inside his brain. There is a surreal element to Wishart’s work which distorts notions of time and place.

The New Art Gallery Walsall

Walsall

Title

Moths on a Blue Path

Date

1963

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 49.5 x W 75 cm

Accession number

GR.260

Acquisition method

gift from the National Art Collections Fund

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signed

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