As can be observed from the two landscape studies below, the whole surface of Savage’s drawings are scored with & activated by an all-over network of lines that then come to coalesce in details of the topography of the specific locations represented, establishing a continuous dialogue between recessional pictorial space & the material fact of the picture plane, which one is returned to by virtue of the mesh that covers it. There’s a wonderful luminosity present too, glowing lambently from the notional horizon through the surface haze.
Jim Savage 'Rough Ground' 1998
Pencil on paper/82 x 116 cm
[image from The Occasional Press]
Jim Savage 'Rough Ground'
[image from Limerick City Gallery of Art]
2 comments:
Hi, do you know of an online gallery of Jim's work? I studied under Jim at college would love to see his work again... especially his figurative work.
Hi Gareth, thanks for your comment/enquiry.
Alas, I don't know of any online gallery of Jim Savage's work - those two images posted were about the only ones I was able to find to illustrate my point, I'd be glad to see more too, I love the intensity of those drawings.
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