Hilma af Klint
s I enter the room containing ‘Group IV, The ten largest,' 1907, in ‘Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), feelings of awe and joy wash over me. Af Klint’s use of colour is breathtaking – bright, highly saturated and intensely emotional – her choice of fast-drying egg tempera on paper surviving well over the past 114 years. Each work is more than three metres in height, the canvases filled with bold flower motifs and organic shapes, looping letters and text fragments,
