GARDEN AND HOME
Grand Scale
by Gill Cullinan, April 2010
“I need to keep myself contained as you can get so drained. You put a lot of yourself into a painting so you could get lost if you get too busy.”
The very large scale of his work was prompted by a solo exhibition on huge walls at Grande Provence, Franschhoek. Despite the scale being risky as not everyone has the wall space or the budget for such large canvases, Lionel nevertheless decided to follow his heart and take the risk. “My ideas and the process I follow lend themselves to big pieces,” he says. “I want to be expressive and to maintain a realistic edge. The only way to do this is to work at this large scale. When you are up close it becomes abstract, but when you step back you get the whole picture.”
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