'What I have done is not the process of abstraction from nature but a method of constructing from within.’

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Victor Pasmore (1908–1998) has long been considered as a leading protagonist of the twentieth-century modern art movement, whose revolt against the figurative was heralded by Herbert Read as ‘the most revolutionary event in post-war British art’ and which, as a result, spring-boarded his artistic career into an abstract realm branded by a continuous development towards ‘the complete autonomy of painting as an independent object’. It is this latter, experimental phase which is represented in the Victor Pasmore Gallery, through works which were mostly produced and left behind in his farmhouse in Gudja, Malta, with others being brought over from Great Britain. The works on display essentially trace Pasmore’s move from relief-painting and constructions to painting, while revealing an unbridled fascination with the poetic language of opposites, symbolism and metaphor—all of which are components forming part of an ongoing ‘developing process' which Pasmore religiously followed until the end.

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The catalogue is available for purchase directly from the Victor Pasmore Gallery at APS House, St Paul Street, Valletta

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