Summary
Many people can be artists, but few need to be, and where that need is palpable it makes itself felt. The urgency of [Woodrow]'s creative impulse is obvious not just in the zest with which he tears into the paint surface but also in the patent impatience with which he prepares his supports. Scraps of potato sacking darned with wool are nailed to stretchers hurriedly tacked together from bits of wood, picture frame, even tree branches.
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Solitary Ambition
Joash Woodrow Retrospective Royal College of Art, until 22 October, and at Ben Uri Gallery, 108a Boundary Road, London NW8, until 19 November
Four years ago, the painter Christopher P. Wood was browsing in a second-hand bookshop in Harrogate when ...See the full content of this document
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