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G2-01 Seville
G2-01 Seville
2016
Brian Clarke’s Seville is the first work from a series of lead-free stained glass folding screens. It features branches of orange trees laden with foliage and fruit set against a deep blue background, a motif that also recurs in Clarke’s commission for Chiswick Mall.
In the 2020 catalogue Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, Paul Greenhalgh writes of Seville:
"Seville plays on archetypal imagery with regard to the place: orange trees bloom against a deep blue background that simultaneously stands for sky and sea. Our first – and perhaps last – response is one of joy and plenty, of celebration of the lushness of the earth, and the leg- endary richness of Spanish flora. The artist knows Seville intimately. He has a home there, which accounts for the underlying feel of the screen, the joie de vivre that flows out of every square centimetre."
This folding screen was produced with an innovative technique that eliminates the lead cames traditionally used to support and join stained glass, allowing the glass to interact freely with light and space. Seville exists in an edition of 10 unique variants plus 3 artist’s proofs, published by HENI.