Quick Time
About this artwork
This print embodies Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's exuberant embrace of strong colours. Quick Time was printed two years after the artist’s death, by her long-time collaborators at the Graal Press just outside Edinburgh. Robert Adam and Carol Roberston invited Barns-Graham to paint her distinctive brushstrokes and marks onto individual sheets of clear PVC. This enabled them to build each design layer by layer; what Robertson called ‘painting in slow motion.’ The startling quality of these colours is the result of a laborious process. Rather than using standard printing inks, they developed a system of bespoke paints mixed from finely ground pigments sourced from around the world.
Published September 2022
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artist:Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912 - 2004) Scottish
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title:Quick Time
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date created:2006
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:76.00 x 58.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Gift of Barns-Graham Charitable Trust 2013
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accession number:GMA 5456
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gallery:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Born in St Andrews, Barns-Graham studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1932 to 1937, where she became interested in abstract art. She moved to St Ives in Cornwall in 1940, finding among the modernist artists who had settled there (including Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth) a...