Joash Woodrow

The Professor of Metaphysics

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Mother and Child in a Garden
Oil on board
Circa 1975. 215 x 163cm

Mother and Child
Oil and household paint on board.
Circa 1970/75. 215 x 163cm

Study for the Professor of Metaphysics
From volume 6, Edwardian Magazine of Art.
Ink drawing over printed text.

Moon Dancers
Collage, circa 1970
85 x 68cm

Oil and household paint on board . Circa 1972. 215 x 163cm

Submitted to The John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, 1972

Illustrated page 105, Joash Woodrow monograph

Joash Woodrow visited the Picasso exhibiton at the Tate Gallery in 1962 and for the next twelve years he was i cubism played an important part in the development of his figuative works. 'The Professor of Metaphysics' is a key works in the series of large scale figurative paintings, which followed directly on from his collages,(based on the first moon landing) and from the drawings produced in the Magazines of Art (examples opposite).

The simplified figure of a child is present in many of Woodrows paintings of this period, the perfectly round, blank face evoking a sense of loneliness and melancholy. In later paintings the child begins to acquire features, the paintings becoming more involved with the landscape, as in 'Woman and Child in a Garden'.