Paintings 1958–1998: Ideas and Influences

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The idea for Bluebell Wood [a painting by Benedict Rubbra] came soon after listening to the recording sessions of my father’s Violin and Viola Concertos.  Vernon Handley was conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  Tasmin Little played the violin and Rivka Golani the viola.  The idea, or cell, of the painting was inspired by the inner strength and controlled tension of the music.  I began to make a three-dimensional construction out of coloured card and paper that was to be the space from which the painting would develop.  […]  The blues and greens of an English landscape weave in and out of the columns of the trees that are both the main structure and the repeated pulses of sound.  Sudden bursts of light, like colourful sounds, are directed onto the construction and punctuate the space.  The light alters the colour of the dominant forms as a shift in key alters the spirit of the musical structure. When the distribution of the light onto the colours and forms of the construction were completed, I painted it as if it was a landscape.  I painted the form that I had made.  I looked at myself, as Edmund looked at himself when he listened to the music that he had written.

excerpt from 'Paintings 1958–1998: Ideas and Influences' pp. 21 (209 words)

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