Charles Blackman 'Street Games' heide circle Through layered gentle abstraction and

Through layered gentle abstraction and protective blues

Paper Dimensions: 30 x 42 cm

An artist through and through

bringing the composition forth from the neutrally abstracted background

Direct from the Blackman Family Collection

Charles Blackman 'Street Games' heide circle Through layered gentle abstraction andCharles Blackman has been described as a transcriber of the childhood experience. Indeed, much of his most acclaimed work pivots around youth schoolgirls and skipping girls roaming alleyways, and Alice tumbling through Wonderland. Always present alongside this innocence however, is a nascent threat, lapping at the shores like a long cast shadow. In Street Games, this entwinement of the naive and unknown amasses. In it, Blackman envisions children