Derrick Greaves - The Psychiatrist’s Cat And Other Recent Paintings

This exhibition is an opportunity to marvel at Greaves's remarkable new paintings and is a playful and inspiring demonstration of creativity, invention and reinvention. It coincides with the launch of the artist’s website www.derrickgreaves.com

The exhibition takes its title from a characteristically playful new work in which the outline of a cat’s face is juxtaposed with that of a psychiatrist. Other works show the combined interior and exterior views of a house near his own home in rural Norfolk, continue his exploration of still life motifs and demonstrate the ways in which he continues to reinvent form using strategies derived from cubism and modernism, and address classical themes.

Derrick Greaves is one of the most important painters in Britain and is extensively represented in museum and public collections. Greaves initially gained acclaim in the 1950s, when he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale along with the other 'Kitchen-Sink' painters with whom he was initially associated: John Bratby, Edward Middleditch and Jack Smith.

After this short period his work swiftly developed into a more heraldic style that paralleled 1960s Pop Art. Flatness, linear precision and fields of colour have characterised his work of the last half a century as Greaves has shifted from an imagery based on nature and observable fact to more studio-bound imaginative constructs. In 2007 Lund Humphries published a major monograph on the artist, Derrick Greaves. From Kitchen Sink to Shangri La in 2007.

All works are for sale, subject to availability.