Accession Code: wu0104 Title: Flobe Date completed: 1966 Medium: Painting Material: Oil Height (mm): 1540 Width (mm): 1235 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: None Location Name: International Manufacturing Centre Location Description: Landing Location Floor: 1

Eric Gadsby's work is abstract both in terms of form and colour and he rejects any attempt to read allusion to nature in it: "The images and shapes in my paintings have no conscious organic foundation; they primarily operate as a frame in which colour can be manipulated and unfurled into a system of activity" (Exhibition catalogue, 'The New Generation', Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1966, p. 74).

Flobe, a contraction of 'flow' and 'lobe', is a formal construction, the thinly applied paint giving the work a feeling of constraint, despite the vividness of its crimson, green and yellow colour scheme.