The genesis for Testing Boundaries: In the Studio with Nancy Valentine and Christina Hutchings was the pairing of these two artworks in Illusion and Abstraction: Capturing the Landscape, held at BNG in 2021. There, Quarry in Warwick and Modern House on North Shore sat side by side, united in their distillation of the Bermuda landscape into a study of shape, colour and form.
Despite being created over 60 years apart and in very different mediums – the first in oils in 1950 and the latter in mixed-media collage in 2014 – the synergy between the two is evident and led to the development of this exhibition.