An enigmatic composition that blends abstraction with a slightly surrealist sensibility, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1991.

Two abstracted figures occupy the lower edge of an ambiguous, dreamlike landscape, their forms incorporating collaged elements alongside painted passages. Sweeping areas of colour and curious floating forms fill the space around them, while arcing trails of golden dots travel across the composition, introducing a playful graphic quality and an intriguing sense of connection between the figures.

The unusual shifts in scale and perspective give the work an enigmatic, otherworldly character. The figures seem less grounded within a recognisable setting than suspended within an imagined world – perhaps observing, communicating or simply existing within the expansive abstract space around them.

The palette is fresh and luminous, dominated by powder blue, cobalt and cornflower blue, softened by pale mint, lemon yellow and creamy white. A vivid sweep of orange cuts horizontally through the lower composition, while earthy browns and charcoal tones lend weight and definition to the figures.

The artist employs a wonderfully varied mixed-media approach, combining broad gestural brushstrokes, translucent washes and dry-brushed passages with layered collage elements. Areas of exposed canvas weave add further texture, while the cut and overlapping surfaces within the figures create a fragmented, tactile quality. The dotted yellow lines provide a contrasting sense of precision, rhythm and movement against the otherwise loose and spontaneous handling.

Playful, dreamlike and enigmatic, the painting leaves its narrative deliberately unresolved, inviting the viewer to form their own interpretation of this curious encounter.

This painting is presented in a slim white-painted wood frame. Both the painting and frame are in excellent vintage condition.

A beautifully restrained mid-century abstract landscape, depicting a broad, open countryside reduced to its most essential forms, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1960.

A distant and low ribbon of fields stretches horizontally across the composition, punctuated by slender trees and softly defined clusters of foliage. Above and below, expansive areas of pale colour create a wonderful sense of space and stillness, giving the distant landscape an almost meditative presence.

The artist takes a distinctly modernist approach to the landscape, favouring simplification and abstraction over descriptive detail. The countryside is constructed through elongated bands and flattened shapes, with trees and hedgerows appearing as loose vertical and horizontal marks. The unusually low, narrow horizon emphasises the breadth of the surrounding space and lends the painting a strikingly minimalist quality.

The palette is wonderfully understated, dominated by warm ivory, soft cream and muted yellow, contrasted against a concentrated band of sage, olive, forest green and blue-green. Subtle shifts between these greens suggest fields, distant trees and changing vegetation without defining them too precisely. The warmth of the surrounding pale ground gives the cooler greens a particularly fresh luminosity.

Brushwork is loose and expressive. Broad horizontal sweeps establish the fields and horizon, while short, upright strokes indicate trees and distant structures. Areas of dry, broken pigment allow the lighter ground to show through, introducing texture and movement to the otherwise serene composition. The sparseness of the marks feels deliberate: with remarkably little detail, the artist captures the atmosphere and rhythm of a vast rural landscape.

This oil on canvas is presented in  a complementary slim gilt frame. The painting is in excellent vintage condition, and the frame has some scuffs.

Size: 33.5 x 67.5 cm (including frame)