This work was first shown in the exhibition D.E. Peebles: Paintings at the Canterbury Society of Arts in July 1973, where it was purchased by Muir for the Gallery. The artist’s accompanying statement for the exhibition sums up the thinking behind his Relief works: Construction, for me, is not a style but simply a method. Neither my reliefs nor my paintings derive from any strict mathematical basis but are assembled with a free sense of order, more characteristic of the painter, than of the function-influenced architect or designer. The narrative aspects of Art are of less interest to me than the more purely visual and private impulses – if such elements as colour, light, line, form, mass, volume are intimately experienced, they too can result in a very personal statement.

(1969 Comeback Special 27 August – 6 November 2016)