Geoff Rigden
'Introit'

Acrylic on canvas
68 x 71 cm

Geoff Rigden was born in Cheltenham in 1943. He studied at Somerset College of Art 1960-63 and the Royal College of Art 1963-66. Whilst still at the Royal College he was a prizewinner in John Moores 5 1965. He held his first one-person exhibition in Greenwich, London in 1981. From 1988 to 1995 he showed regularly at Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery London. His most recent exhibitions include a one-person show at Cross St Gallery London 2000 and 'Art Crazy Nation' Milton Keynes Gallery 2002.

"This is one of a series of paintings that employ an architectural motif partly inspired by Hawksmoor's church of St. George’s in the East near my home in East London. At the same time it resembles the profile of a plaster sculpture of 1994 which owes an acknowledgement to Brancusi."