Description
Signed, inscribed on a label verso, oil on canvas
Dimensions
61cm x 46cm (24in x 18in)
Footnote
Provenance: The Wood Collection
Note:
Both paintings offered here clearly reveal Redpath's love of all types of colour, from bright and lush, to quiet and soft. In Still-Life of Flowers in a Blue and White Jug, her use of white throughout the composition gives a feeling of freshness to the whole work. Here, as often in her paintings, she builds a textured background in soft colours, often in grey tones, against which the warm pink and orange flowers, strong dark blue of the vase's decoration and splash of yellow pop. She likened this ability to create vivid yet harmonious palettes to her father's profession as a textile designer, 'I do with a spot of red or yellow in a harmony of grey what my father did in his tweed.'
The composition of Still-Life of Flowers in a Blue and White Jug is beautifully balanced, and this careful arrangement of objects fit into Redpath's wider view of life, in which beauty and art could find its expression in the most personal and straightforward of settings; a meal amongst friends, a pretty setting for tea, or our everyday objects. Redpath was endlessly fascinated with the pursuit of beauty in art and life, and the eternal decorative possibilities of composition and colour.