Meditations on Repetition
I find all this transporting. Stabilising. Shutting out the shouty, divisive and rather ugly world we find ourselves in at the moment. I realise, given my many years of looking, and many years of confronting diverse wonders, all I want at this stage is to make a rectangle of modest, lasting, and quiet beauty.
- Richard Nott
Richard Nott is the founder of the iconic British fashion label, Workers for Freedom. Over recent years, he has built a career in painting. The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents an exhibition of the artist’s latest series of paintings, Meditations on Repetition.
"I realised when listening to music whilst painting that my playlist contains a majority of tracks with repetitive themes: Philip Glass, Nils Frahm, and so on. Then I thought of the pleasure repetitive planting brings. A tapestry of tulips. A woodland of bluebells. Endless snowdrops in a country park.
I find all this transporting. Stabilising. Shutting out the shouty, divisive and rather ugly world we find ourselves in at the moment. I realise, given my many years of looking, and many years of confronting diverse wonders, all I want at this stage is to make a rectangle of modest, lasting, and quiet beauty.
- Richard Nott
Schematized, musical and meditative, the works in this exhibition mark a new direction in Nott’s work: a distilation of painitng to a place of purity.
