I came across this video on You Tube, having not been aware of George Rowlett's paintings before. Where have I been? Slabs of colour, applied with a broad pallet knife or smeared with finger tip. Crude though this means of application may look, their is a deep expressiveness carved in its impasto layers. Watching him be out of breath, lugging his paints and easel up and down staircases and across sand dunes I found it so moving. I kept thinking, why isn't the film maker not helping this old man? This eighty year old man who cycles precariously along the road to new painting locations or back home. There ought to be a preservation order issued on him.
Rowletts work is where landscape painting and abstract expressionism collide and fight it out on a canvas board.
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