‘Nude with apocalyptic curves’, 1957. Oil on canvas, 81 x 61 cm.  1957

This painting was executed at art school in Newcastle upon Tyne in a life room where we drew and painted from models. After a while, I reacted [br]against objective drawing – there seemed no point in accurate, illusionistic depictions because photography could supply them so much more efficiently. Dispassionate drawings of naked bodies also ignored their sensual/erotic ...