Orange and white
- Artist:
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas on board
- Production Date: 1970
- Description: In July 1970 Margaret Mellis held a solo exhibition of her work in the Pathfoot Building at the University of Stirling. None of the pieces were purchased for the Art Collection at that time but recently this work of the same year was donated from the collection of the first curator Matilda Mitchell, and her late husband Douglas Hall.
This piece consists of a very small colourful canvas mounted on a slightly larger white painted one and in the exhibition catalogue Mellis explains why: ‘My reason for painting large is to make the colour do all the work. But I also wanted to find a way to make small paintings as significant through colour as large paintings. I discovered that by using a shape or perhaps two (in thickness) with the colours from which the painting was to be made, I could make the colour work extra hard and in some way compensate for the small size. Like building flats instead of spreading all over the ground. Although not flat, these works are not reliefs. The colours at full strength are turned into ‘colour‘. All my paintings are colour structures‘. - Dimensions: Small canvas mounted onto larger canvas. Outer canvas 38cm H x 28cm W (15" x 11"). Smaller canvas 23cm H x 13cm W (9"x5")
- Acquisition Note: Presented to Stirling University from the Collection of Douglas and Matilda Hall, April 2024
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Pathfoot Gallery 1 Small case
- Accession Number: 2024.3
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
