Page 41 - Studio International - December 1965

London Commentary

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an accident that confined him to hospital for a year
and he began painting again. The new paintings were
on view at the Mercury Gallery and their impact is
immediate. Chagall suggests itself more than somewhat
as an influence in the figures, several with hats of
peculiar shape but the drawing is animated and the
colours vividly plastic. Nothing, it is certain, can
prevent paint becoming the medium of artists like
Taylor who, untrained, nevertheless attempts to convey
a message by pictorial means. Clumsy though it may
be, it has force and a simple power that compels us
to listen.
Mona Killpack, showing at the John Whibley Gallery,
takes her motives from landscape peopled with figures
as slim as Giacometti's who move between the trees
that have the tracery of filigree in settings of country
and park. Though she is not essentially a colourist, her
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Anthony Caro paintings are in a low key that sets an overall mood in
Slow Movement pale blues or ochres. In verticals and arabesques, the
50 X 50 X 160 in.
Kasmin Ltd. artist's line weaves a composition that is full of visual
rhymes that convey their own distinctive charm. ■
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Jack Taylor
Serenade to a Goat
17!,- X 16 in.
Mercury Gallery
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