Glenn Brown: Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom

L'Arlésienne takes it title from a work by Vincent Van Gogh, painted in Arles in 1890. This colours found in this painting are used as the pallette in the sculpture - encapsulating the vivid hues of a balmy summer in the South of France. The sculpture is both an abstract, grotesque head while also a stately tree that blows in the wind. Because the oil paint is all applied with a single-sized brush there is uniformity and harmony, keeping this wild mass from becoming too unruly.
- Glenn Brown, May 2018