I’ve not been successful in viewing any of Prunella Clough’s work in the flesh, so unfortunately all research has been looking at images on line.

I looked at Wire Tangle 11.  I’ve decided to look at it and decide what it says to me and how it may have been done, before I research what others have written.   It is a large piece; 101cm x 127cm and is painted with oil on canvas.  It literally looks like tangled wire.  It makes an interesting composition and the large “tangle” on the right leads eye round the whole drawing.  The back ground could be Frottage of a wooden structure.  The yellow diagonal lines are curious and so different from “the wire”, I’m not sure what to think.

I’ve read that she was fascinated by Post War industrial landscapes and the materials found there, such concrete, corrugated metal and the subject of this painting; tangled wire.  But the paintings aren’t figurative representations, but abstractions of these.  She was interested in patterns and forms of things which were man-made, and things that have served their purpose and been discarded.