Allen Maddox

Paintbrush held in a hand, passing at speed. The wrist dips – paint hits canvas, viscous pigment sliding off brush – the wrist swerves, brush follows ‘tailing’ paint at the end of its stroke. Allen Maddox’s paintings celebrate the brushstroke as traces of the painter’s bodily movement. As art critic, Tony Green noted: “…every stroke stood up, for itself and nothing else, no symbol, no metaphor, a physical piece of action, not mistakable for anything else”.