Maro Gorky, daughter of Abstract Expressionist Ashile Gorky, talks about how she was taught to paint as a child, the anger and guilt she felt over her father’s death, the influence of her tutors Jeffrey Camp and Frank Auerbach at the Slade, her move to Tuscany where she has lived a simple life for more than half a century and the way she interprets landscape with colours, shapes and symbols.
Maro Gorky talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
Liv Tyler, 1995
Saskia on a Rocking Horse, 1983
Chinese Landscape, 1986
Persimmon Tree, 2010
My Father’s Birthplace, 2022
All images are © Maro Gorky
A Life Painting is showing at Long and Ryle Gallery, London until 17 May 2023
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial
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