…ok, two pots
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Recently, while browsing York Art Gallery, I came face to face with a Ben Nicholson painting that I’ve not seen before, Still Life: Birdie, 1934. I had to remind myself to breath. And why stealing is bad.
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In the same exhibition room sits a pot, Vessel According To Klee XI, 2002, by Gordon Baldwin. According to Rothschild, Baldwin is one of the UK’s best potters, and it’s easy to see why; this pot is the quintessence of abstract sensibility.
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So I did a quick search on the internet when I arrived back in London to find that the Barrett Marsden gallery is currently running an exhibition of Baldwin’s ceramics and drawings. For The Alchemist 1, currently showing at BMG, reminds me of a page I found in an El Lissitzky book stashed in the upstairs room of Janette Ray, a very cool rare art & design book store on Bootham. This particular page (in a German edition of El Lissitzky’s work) really stood out for it’s abstract simplicity.
All things (and places) totally irresistible.