Screenprint `Car Beach Wreck` by Terry Setch, 1980`s, English

Terry Setch helped revolutionize painting practice from the mid 1960`s through to the 1980`s. He was at the forefront of exciting developments in European and American painting that were happening at the turn of the 1980`s. Landmark works include ‘Beach Construction’ 1981, and ‘Once upon a Time there was Oil III’, 1981-2. In these works Terry broke the mould in terms of how an abstract painting could be made, and yet have contemporary environmental references too.

Terry Setch continues the tradition of English Landscape painting from Constable and Turner to Paul Nash, but broadens the scope of what the term Landscape Painting can be. He also addresses the aftermath of American Abstract Expressionism; particularly how we move on from Pollock.