Triptych: Silver Birches & Bindweed & Beneath a Rotting Tree

Michael Porter (born 1948)

Whitworth Art Gallery

1991

Porter's paintings provide fragments from the Derbyshire woodland near to where he was born and brought up. It is as if the works have been put under a painterly microscope. He works simultaneously with both oil and water based paints and exploits the inability of these two media to mix, thus achieving a wide repertoire of surfaces, from marble-like complexity to watery simplicity.

• Medium: oil & pva on canvas
• Dimensions: each 32 x 170 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2937 ( Total: £11,750)
• ArtFunded in: 1993
• Vendor: Purdy Hicks Gallery

Provenance

Purdy Hicks Gallery.

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