edwardpovey
Selected Paintings
Girls, Girls, Girls
Edward Povey
2008
Oil on linen
28 x 22 inches
Signed and dated lower right
$12000 / 6000 pounds sterling
At first the woman herself - quite distraught, and standing in her vulnerable nakedness on the landing - appears shocking. But quite soon the girls, endlessly pacing through the house like a terrible treadmill of regret and loss - become far more shocking than the woman, for whom we begin to feel sympathy.
Private World
Edward Povey
2008
Oil on linen
28 x 22 inches
Signed and dated lower left
$8300 / 4150 pounds sterling
So much of life is ambiguous. All things simply are what they are, devoid of inherent meaning.
Things We Can Count On
Edward Povey
2008
Oil on linen
32 x 24 inches
Signed and dated lower right
$9600 / 4800 pounds sterling
The basis for this painting is emotional, and its source lies beyond sight in the unconscious.
The man is effeminate and tense, perched on the very edge of a step, and seemingly on the edge of tears. The child could be the child that he once was - painted extremely sensitively: dappled and pale green, the boy is in a rage, storming up the steps, observed by the man that he will become.
Is it that the man can see the natural outcome of the rage which he felt as a child? That if the child were to have continued to express such anger, his path would have taken him inevitably up the tower and off the top, to his death, like the man visible through the window.
