Charles Blackman 'Red Garden' abstract art Found on the city’s outskirts

Found on the city’s outskirts

Adrian KELLETT

but may show some small signs of surrounding wear or age to paper

Just as he connects seemingly disparate ideas

and shared humanity in a single frame

Charles Blackman 'Red Garden' abstract art Found on the city’s outskirtsA white cat reappears throughout Charles Blackmans oeuvre a symbol of innocence, childhood, a familiar and clandestine echo of the artist himself. In The Red Garden, this cat is caught in a garden flush with dusk light. Like Claude Monet, Blackman was interested in capturing the same landscape at different times of day. Unlike Monet however, he was not interested observing fidelity to these moments. Indeed, there is an intoxicating unreality to