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Thérése Oulton

Thérése Oulton is a significant contributor to the development of abstract painting in Britain. She studied at St Martin’s School of Art (1975-1979) and at the Royal College of Art in London (1980-1983). As a response to the emotional void left by the intellectual ravages of Minimalism and conceptualism of the 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of artists sought to put figuration and romanticism back into art. Scottish painters took the lead with the former, English with the latter. Oulton, like painters Ian McKeever and Christopher Le Brun, follows in the romantic landscape tradition, taking the achievements of J.M.W Turner as her cue. However, her intricate abstract paintings, often with evocative titles, take the genre to new heights. They have the sensual intensity of Turner without specifying a place or time, focusing on the interior world of nature. They appear like the tiniest fragment of a landscape – rock strata or plant organisms – magnified to monumental proportions. In Deposition, Oulton has interwoven layers of luscious oil paint like a delicate, complex skein of jewel colours. The rhythms and harmonies structuring the painting keep the eye dancing around the composition, searching for new details to enjoy.

Masterpieces:

• Mortal Coil
• Smokescreen

Text: The A-Z of Art, Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson.

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