Paul Jenkins
Immanent Colour - Works on Paper from the 1990s in Watercolour and InkPaul Jenkins: Immanent Colour, Works on Paper from the 1990s in Watercolour and Ink, confirms the artist’s place as one of the modern masters of the watercolour medium. Jenkins made watercolours throughout his life. His works are in museums internationally and throughout the UK, including a watercolour in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
“Watercolour is not elusive,” Jenkins wrote. “It is the architecture beneath the sea that cries to be left out, to be discovered. And when it rings right, it sounds very much like a bell tolling deeply in the sea from some strange sunken chapel.”
This exhibition explores the artist’s unique relationship with watercolour looking specifically at his late works from the 1990s. Isabelle Dervaux, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City observed that Jenkins’ watercolours exemplify the paradox of an art form that can be so spontaneous and yet be so demanding and require so much control on the part of the artist. “To me there is nothing left to chance in watercolour,” Jenkins wrote.
Works
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Paul JenkinsPhenomena Big Sur Take, 1994Watercolour on paper78.7 × 104.8 cm -
Paul JenkinsPhenomena Basalt Light, 1994Watercolour on paper109.9 × 78.7 cm -
Paul JenkinsPhenomena China Winds, 1996Watercolour on paper109.9 × 78.7 cm
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Paul JenkinsPhenomena Lost & Found, 1995Watercolour on paper79.1 × 110.2 cm -
Paul JenkinsPhenomena Phoenix Talisman, 1995Watercolour on paper110.2 x 79.1 cmSigned lower left; signed, titled and dated verso -
Paul JenkinsPhenomena Black Lightning, 1994Watercolour and acrylic on paper75.8 x 57.2 cmSigned lower right; signed, titled and dated verso
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Paul JenkinsPhenomena Fox Chapel, 1995Watercolour on paper53 x 39.7 cmSigned lower centre; signed, titled and dated verso -
Paul JenkinsPhenomena Ultramarine Northwester, 1995Watercolour on paper79.1 × 110.2 cm -
Paul JenkinsPhenomena Prism Inscape, 1995Watercolour on paper78.7 × 109.9 cm
