Alan Green - A Survey

Alan Green is one of the great British abstract artists whose formative years were spent in London in the 1960's, having studied at Beckenham School of Art and The Royal College of Art (in between which he served two years national service in Korea). By the mid-1960's, in response perhaps to the influence of American abstract painting, Green began working on colour field paintings in which paint and its application dictated the form. He intended his paintings to function in two ways; as a two-dimensional pictorial space as well as a three-dimensional material object in real space. Green's structured, painterly surfaces register changes in movement, colour and light revealed through the layers of their making.