Lambeth Community Care Centre

Untitled 1
98 x 156 cm
1985

Untitled 2
90 x 270 cm
1985

Untitled 3
98 x 156 cm
1985

Untitled 4
88 x 171 cm
1985

In 1984 my own doctor, Raymond Pietroni, first mentioned the idea of providing pictures for the local Care Centre with which his group practice is closely associated.

A few weeks later I went along with my assistant to measure up the relevant walls. He made up seven canvases, the largest ten feet long. I worked on these most nights for three months, improvising and revising until I thought I'd made a series of rich and differentiated colour experiences which would help bring the outside world of clouds, trees and land landscape into the building especially since most of the pictures were to hang in the only part of it from which one cannot immediately relate to the garden or the sky outside.

Only one of the pantings has a title (Sweetshop Memories). It is also the only one to refer to an interior since it is positioned where views of the garden can be seen all around.

Extracted from Works & Texts (1992) page 167