March 2010 Wendy Cruickshank

Wendy’s painting ‘Town’ was on show at the gallery during March. In her own words:

‘This painting could more directly be called the Visual Arts Facility and the bus station, and the starting point was because it was a topic on my mind at the time.

I have followed the debate with interest, my sympathies for both sides increasing over the several years it has been in the news. The bus station was the setting for a painting I did over thirty years ago, and has cropped up from time to time in others. Osborne’s buses feature in particular, as I lived on the Maldon route for many years. The painting is largely constructed in a layered way, like putting one transparency over another.’

Here, Wendy talks about her approach to her work:

‘My paintings can refer to ideas and drawings which originate years back. Sometimes I do several versions or I may work on a piece intermittently. I don’t work from photographs, which means what I put down has been filtered through concrete experience. Although the subjects have arbitrary beginnings, the contents reflect what I know, but are not necessarily a considered comment.’