Peter Sedgley

Corona, 1970

material: PVA and pigment on canvas, optional lights
dimensions: 200 x 200cm
acquisition date: 2001
gift of the Arnolfini Collection Trust
© the artist
ACC69/2000

Peter Sedgley has been described as 'one of the most single-minded of artists'. After abandoning a career as an architect, he decided to devote himself to the exploration of colour relationships. Like other members of the emerging Op Art movement of the 1960s, Sedgley was fascinated by the optical sensations produced by intricate geometrical patterns and pulsating colour contrasts.

In the 1960s Sedgely worked on a series of paintings of horizontal bands of colour in which he achieved subtle rhythms and tensions within a limited colour range.