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Following an invitation to write a new piece for MusicArt, it was a great pleasure to visit the studio of distinguished painter, printmaker and sculptor Christopher Le Brun to find inspiration in his recent abstract paintings, sculptures and woodcuts, many of which were at the time (2015) featured in the exhibition ‘Colour’ at Colnaghi Gallery, London. The solo piano piece composed in response to this experience, Abstracts, is a continuous work in four linked sections that represent different layers of immersion in the art, specifically, by observing the same painting from different distances. The most direct influence on this piece was a beautiful painting, Cloud.
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Birchall, R. (2020). Abstracts. In: Wiley, C., Pace, I. (eds) Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39233-8_13
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