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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.
Wishart employs an even deeper, royal blue in his painting 'Arab Courtyard', which is also in the collection.
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
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Gallery Square, Walsall, West Midlands WS2 8LG England
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