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Common Whitlowgrass, Close In, Smyth Street

By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/helenthomas" title="Helen Thomas" class="inline font-bold underline transition-opacity duration-100 hover:opacity-50 focus:opacity-50"> Helen Thomas </a> 2025

As with many of Thomas's paintings ‘Common Whitlowgrass, Close In, Smyth Street’ presents a plan view perspective of a patch of urban wild vegetation. In this piece, the viewer is invited in close, to a surface that navigates paint and plant, where specificity and visual ambiguity brush along in close proximity.

This painting was acquire by The Manchester Contemporary Art Fund for the Manchester Art Gallery permanent collection.  

000 1782051595 Helen Thomas

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