Prunella Clough @ Annely Juda Fine Art

This exhibition of work by Prunella Clough (1919 – 1999) and Alan Reynolds (1926 – 2014), brings together two of the most important figures in twentieth-century British painting, exploring between them, figuration, abstraction, cubism, ‘concrete’ art, and collage.   

Prunella Clough is widely regarded as one of the most singular and significant British artists of the modern post-war period.  Clough found her subjects by touring London’s industrial wastelands and bombsites – docks, power stations, factories and scrapyards – creating gritty, urban images. Her work – comprising paintings, collages, drawings, reliefs and graphics – increasingly centred on the components of the cityscape as her art shifted away from representation through various influences including cubism and European abstraction.  Her abstract works often contrast colours and sometimes found objects and reveal her continual and personal preoccupation with formal qualities – composition, colour and texture – and her delight in the edginess and abstraction of everyday objects and experiences.