Street A, oil on canvas by Clare Taylor

Street A

Oil on canvas 73.5 x 64cm

I love the way streets provide us with constant instructions about how to move and behave, much of it – like our own id – forbidding us from free movement, yet making our shared life on the streets possible. The acme of civilised restraint; keeping us safe, but holding us back.  I find this language of signs beautiful; the colour and light and line creating urban landscapes far removed from the epiphany of broad rural panoramas (which I also love).