1980s | Henry Israel

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abstract painting based on Cornish stone cross form by Henry Israel

abstract painting by Henry Israel

figure in a landscape painting by Henry Israel

Oil painting by Henry Israel depicting a semi-abstract figure seated within an abstract setting of brown blocks. The figure itself is depicted in brown and muddy green.

Oil painting by Henry Israel of a cow in pale yellows and browns. The sky is pale blue.

Oil painting by Henry Israel of male figure in white shirt and hat and dark trousers against an abstract background of browns and black.

Oil painting by Henry Israel depicting three female figures in semi- abstract against and abstract background of blue and brown.

abstract painting of a cyclist

abstract painting by Henry Israel based on a Cornish road

By the early 80s Henry was finding the problems of formal abstraction too restrictive, a figurative element returns as he "decided to put in the emotional source that made me want to paint the thing in the first place...without having to impose and explain reality on top of it"
[from "A Chat With Henry Israel", Jenny Anderson and Roger Farnworth for Collage, Camel Arts Society Journal July 1990]

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