Reliefs

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A series of low reliefs arose from a period of prolific drawing.

“The brightest of all images is the human body; we cannot look at it for long, it dazzles us.  This is because, as the Greeks knew, it contains a God, Eros.”

          PJ Kavanagh. London exhibition catalogue foreword in 1972

‘Although based on drawings of the life of lovers, the problem was to translate these into sculpture.  Reliefs provided the solution; the material itself was an equivalent for the sensuality, and the focus was taken off the subject matter which was veiled in the undulations of the screen like relief’..

            Dennis Farr