Hugo
Acrylic on canvas
1994
gions and spirituality. Angel of Liberation, 1995, is inspired by Acts
12:6-10 from the Bible: ���Peter, bound with chains, was sleeping
in the prison cell. And behold the angel of the Lord came upon
him, and the light shined in the prison: and the angel raised him
up and his chains fell of his hands.��� Historian and artist Sir Roland Penrose, instrumental in bringing the Surrealist movement to
Britain, writes in the introduction to her monograph, ���She gives
us an extension of vision. She opens up paths of light through
walls we create in our blindness and from which we must escapethe tomb now has a picture window and the prison a spacious and
triumphal exit.���
In Sandys��� Winston at Work, 1991, now in the Mahoney Collection, Chartwell, 1983, a lithograph, Hugo, 1974, Mark, 1973 (both
portraits of her sons) and in numerous other Sandys��� works, she
contrasts near blank white figures against colorful settings. All the
while, she is inviting us to see that those around us are the conduits through whom we attain fulfillment, thereby affirming our
divinity, our communion.
HYLAND
