Page 54 - Studio Interantional - May 1967

Michael Wishart is more traditional. Indeed,
some of his work, with its fat, juicy pigment and
glittering high-key colour, reminds me of William
Coldstream. Here and there later styles intrude—a
painting called 'Mirage' shows the star and
crescent of a flag reappearing inexplicably in the
waters of a pool which wouldn't naturally reflect
them. But basically the show is something affec-
tionately traditional without being stale or stilted.
Some of the figure-paintings strike me as fresh,
elegant and (dare I use the word?) undemand-
ingly beautiful.
El

Left Karel Appel Two heads 1966
Oil and gouache 20 x 254 in.

The Gold of Venice 1961, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 in.,
One of 26 works by Fontana loaned to the Fontana
retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum by
McRoberts and Tunnard, the London gallery

Facing Kenneth Martin Four aspects of Rotary rings
1967, brass, height 16* in. greatest radius 5 ¾ in.
Of this work, included in an Axiom Gallery
exhibition of Martin's work opening at the end of
May, Kenneth Martin writes:
'An improvisation on similarities and differences
within a limited range of action.
'The whole work is proportional coming from the
- related diameters and depths of the rings. These
stem horizontally from four bushes on a suspended
vertical threaded rod. The progression was
considered vertically as well as horizontally.
'Each section can be rotated up and down the
screw rod. It can be inverted and also its position
can be changed in the vertical sequence. The
orientation of the four pieces and the interval
between them become then the choice of the
participant. The over-riding consideration is that
actual balance should always be sought for.
'When spinning rigidly there is variety of motion
and stillness.'