The Cottage, 1961
- Painting
- Oil on canvas
- 86 x 116 cms (33.86 x 45.67 ins)
- Ref: 645060/TC66
Exhibited at:
- The Ashgate Gallery, 1961
- Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff,
June 1962
- 'Tom Cross - Paintings of
Cornwall and Wales', The University of Wales , School of Art Gallery,
Aberystwyth, 1995
- 'Tom Cross: Early Paintings', Kestle Barton, Manaccan, Cornwall, 15 June - 26 August 2013.
Featured in 'Helford: A River and Some Landscapes' (Halsgrove 2005), p122.
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).
Also see TC1249.
