Expanding Forms, Touch Paint Series (Movement over Sand)
Expanding Forms, Touch Paint Series (Movement Over Sand) (1983) is part of a series by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham that captures natural phenomena and movement in abstract form. This work in particular pays homage to the time spent by the artist observing waves from her home in St Ives in Cornwall overlooking Porthmeor Beach. Barns-Graham experimented with different shapes in order to capture natural forms. The 1950s saw her paintings predominated by squares, then circles in her self-titled ‘tiddly-winks’ phase in the 1960s, before the quasi triangular shapes of the 1980s. As forces of nature, waves were frequently captured by Barns-Graham over the course of her life-long career.
