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Gillian Ayres (1930 - 2018) was active/lived in England, United Kingdom. Gillian Ayres is known for Abstract expressionist painting.
"Gillian Ayres, Abstract Artist Besotted by Paint, Dies at 88," By Richard Sandomir, April 15, 2018, Obituary,
The New York Times
Gillian Ayres, a leading British abstract painter whose pursuit of beauty led her to use evocative colors, texture her works with thick layers of oils and occasionally to hurl paint at her canvasses, died on Wednesday in North Devon, England. She was 88.
Her son Sam Mundy said the cause was heart and kidney failure.
“Painting is a visual, silent medium, but I love it and I am obsessed by it,” Ms. Ayres told The Guardian in 2001.
She was besotted by paint — what it felt like physically and what she could do with it. She used her hands, brushes, parts of cardboard boxes and brooms to arrange the vivid images that distinguished her work for more than 60 years. She often spent more time staring at a work-in-progress to determine how to organize shapes and space than she did painting it.
In an interview three years ago, M ...
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