Recent Abstracts

Recent abstracts show further development where you thought development could not be possible finding colours that transcend description. The surface quality has developed a sheen that is sometimes reminiscent of polished leather and at other times it is Japanese lacquer and yet again the surface of glass.

The marks or motifs as Duffy calls them show new additions, yet the old marks, used time and time again show no banality but are full of energy, part of a language that can only be Duffy's.

His colour range stays as broad as the eye and the imagination can allow. Yet, very recently we begin to see areas of no colour, possibly inspired from a series of pen and ink drawings completed in 2000 and shown in St Ives. These new works have far larger forms in dark blues which appear to be part of a new obsession which consider and refer to sculptural shapes on a monumental scale echoing back to works in the early 90's. Yet, finite detail is never lost and we are drawn into open ineluctable space with lines and forms in perpetual motion allowing us to interact as we will.