[from the pressrelease]

Nature, in all its untamed and man-made forms, has been a recurring subject in [Hurvin] Anderson’s paintings throughout his three-decade career. Cultural historian Michael Prokopow writes, “Anderson’s varied depictions of nature—employing and querying the traditions of landscape painting—luxuriantly question the construction of an often exclusionary British nationalism, long shaped by exploration and colonization.”

In Repeating Yourself, Anderson conjures images of lush, abundant vegetation. In the past, his paintings developed from specific source images, but in his new work, Anderson finds the sources less central to the process. Instead, he relies more on intuition. In contrast to the English countryside, where he lives and works, Anderson paints the flora of the Caribbean, his family’s homeland. Anderson allows images, patterns, and ideas resurface, repeating himself because, as he says, history repeats itself, and “you think ideas belong to someone but in fact they belong to no one.”