Peter Godwin: Space, Light and Time
Dark and alive with momentum and verve, there is something extraordinarily immediate in Godwin’s play across the picture plane. Channelling the eighteenth century master of the still life, Jean Siméon Chardin, with tightly stepped horizontals that give incremental and fine depth, the foreground is abundantly realised as a world of amassed objects, furniture, clutter, art, […]
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Peter Godwin
“Look, I hate opening up like this,” Peter Godwin says. “It’s not that I find it difficult, but it’s like Matisse said: ‘Painter’s tongues should be cut out at birth’.” I’m glad that Godwin still has his tongue. I’m glad because, while the artist may wish his work to speak for itself, Godwin also has […]
Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin takes heart from Picasso’s famous line about Cézanne’s anxiety. It seems to justify his own late-blooming career as an artist who only began to exhibit regularly after the age of 50, enjoying instant success. He once explained his reluctance to show his work by saying he wanted it to be like a brick […]
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Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin graced the cover of Issue 32, speaking with John McDonald about the powerful abstraction at play in his dark interiors.
