2. COLOUR AND SPACE
The career of 20th-century British painter Ivon Hitchens spanned six decades, from his emergence in the 1920s to his death on 29 August 1979; his oeuvre described a journey from experimental early paintings that remain tethered to the observed world to later abstract works that explore interactions of colour through clear, bold brush marks.
Pallant House Gallery is currently holding the largest exhibition of Hitchens’ work for 30 years, Space through Colour. This is an appropriate setting, given the Chichester venue’s proximity to the South Downs where Hitchens painted throughout his life.
In this article we’ll be looking at Ivon Hitchens’ use of colour in several key paintings from the exhibition that should first be appreciated as complete works in themselves before being analysed. His canvases are
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