Lebanon
17.10.07
Acrylic on cotton duck
60 x 55 inches
(152.5 x 140 cm)
Literature
Lambirth, A., ‘Hoyland: Scatter the Devils’, Unicorn Press 2009, p96
Inspired by a photograph that accompanied an article written in 2007 by Robert Fisk in The Independent.
‘I don’t see Lebanon as a political piece, although the title would indicate that. I was simply struck by the constant threat to people living in the Middle East and the sheer horror of the things that happen. I suppose my sympathies would be with the victims and the underdog, so I suppose that in that way it is political.’
(Walker, E., ‘Blood on the canvas, by a modern master’, The Independent, April 25, 2008).