Artistic boundary crosser

“Study on Paper (1) for Gimme Some Wine’’ (acrylic on paper, 2o16), from English painter Chris Gollon’s (1953-1917) “Gimme Some Wine’’ series. See this exhibition.

And there’s a movie about him.

— Courtesy Chris Gollon Estate & IAP Fine Art. 

New England Diary focuses on art from the region, but the late Mr. Gollon’s work is so exciting that we hope that some of it will be shown in America.

Mr. Gollon’s famously collaborated with musicians and songwriters, some of them American.

He said:

“Music and painting are, in my view, as with all art genres, seeking the same truth.”

Indeed, he was an artistic boundary crosser in several ways. Consider his 14 Stations of the Cross paintings commissioned by the Church of England for the Church of St John on Bethnal Green in London, though he wasn’t a practicing Christian.