The Cottage, 1960
- Abstract
- Oil on canvas
- 34.5 x 52 cms (13.58 x 20.47 ins)
- Ref: 644310/TC58
Completed during Tom and Pat's time living in Rhiwsawson, Wales, while Tom was Assistant Director of the Welsh Arts Council. Together Tom and Pat rebuilt a derelict School House cottage, utilising the skills Tom developed at Manchester School of Art, where he first studied Architecture before switching to the Fine Art course.
'The transformation of this cottage gave rise to a number of highly abstracted paintings and drawings...This is an early expression of his enjoyment of the ambiguous spatial effects and powerful diagonal movements implied by the drawing techniques of Axonometric and Isometric Projection' (Alan Windsor, Tom Cross: Early Paintings, 2013).
Exhibited at:
- Ashgate Gallery, July 1961
- South Wales Group, 1962
- Aberysthwyth, 1995.
Tom Cross Catalogue notes this piece was reframed in 1995.
