Work by Eve Quarmby presented by Adrian Lewis (Art Historian)

Still life is just such a set form, very tight parameters, and it all depends what you do with the conventions that it comes with. I think the reason I think Yves Kornby's work is really great, a really great painting, is because it has that element of believability, it's something that's seen, it has a tonal punch to it, and at the same time there's an element that's very spiritual and meditative, and the way for example here that the table and the background are fused as a space I think is quite remarkable and it produces really quite a spiritual vision The way that the paintwork is handled to create a sort of whole unity in the work and then these presences within that ongoing sort of space makes it really wonderful, really riveting. I think it should be in a museum.