The Built Environment / Annabel Butler | Annabel Butler

  • Annabel Butler, Neuhausen Grid
  • Annabel Butler, Green Attic
  • Annabel Butler, Onion Domes #2
  • Annabel Butler, Rooftops, Attics, Spires
  • Annabel Butler, Looking Down
  • Annabel Butler, White Tower, Variation 6
  • Annabel Butler, White Tower, Variation 5
  • Annabel Butler, White Tower, Variation 4
  • Annabel Butler, Jigsaw Puzzle Rooftops
  • Annabel Butler, Attics, Shadows and Cars, Neuhausen, Munich
  • Annabel Butler, Looking Down #2
  • Annabel Butler, Onion Domes
  • Annabel Butler, Night Attics
  • Annabel Butler, Rooftops with Spires
  • Annabel Butler, Rooftop Air- Con
  • Annabel Butler, Three Attics
  • Annabel Butler, Single Chimney
  • Annabel Butler, White Tower, Variation 3
  • Annabel Butler, White Tower, Variation 2
  • Annabel Butler, White Tower, Variation 1
  • Annabel Butler, Rooftops, Variation 2
  • Annabel Butler, Rooftops, Variation 1
  • Annabel Butler, Rooftop Synergy
  • Annabel Butler, Studio Chimneys
  • Annabel Butler, Toy Town
  • Annabel Butler, Green House, Orange Roof
  • Annabel Butler, Green House, A Sliver of Yellow
  • Annabel Butler, Green House, Red Chimney
  • Annabel Butler, Green House, Lilac Roof
  • Annabel Butler, Chimneys – Orange Ground
  • Annabel Butler, Murnau Memory, Germany
  • Annabel Butler, Small Car in a Big City
  • Annabel Butler, Blue Sky
  • Annabel Butler, Night Sky
  • Annabel Butler, Orange Sky
  • Annabel Butler, Yellow Sky
  • Annabel Butler, Street Scene – Yellow Ground
  • Annabel Butler, Little Green Cottage
  • Annabel Butler, Construction Site
  • Annabel Butler, Orange Tower
  • Annabel Butler, Red Sky
  • Annabel Butler, Smart with Umbrella
  • Annabel Butler, Skyline
  • Annabel Butler, Bamberg, Germany
  • Annabel Butler, Tower Grid
  • Annabel Butler, Magenta House
  • Annabel Butler, Blue Turrets
  • Annabel Butler, Between Buildings
  • Annabel Butler, Blue Roof, Yellow Chimney

The Built Environment / Annabel Butler
29 October - 17 November 2009

Annabel Butler, 2009

Rather than writing an artist statement about this new body of work, which I have called The Built Environment, I have chosen to quote Hans Hofmann. His words, written in 1944, articulate the issues that I have been exploring.

Hans Hofmann 1944

Space and the Picture

One cannot see space
one can only sense space –
Since one cannot see space
one can also not copy space
and since one senses space
only
one must invent `the´pictorial
space
as the finale of a pictorial
creation.
Therefore one must be inventive
in using the pictorial means.
The lines, the planes, the points
these are the architectural means
with which to build space as
experienced
experienced by the senses
and not only perceived by
physical vision
because vision and space experience together
create an ‘inner vision’
in the junction
of a multiple physical
experience
with a physical reaction