Glen Baxter

Intermittently Ochre

Flowers Gallery is delighted to present a new collection of works on paper by renowned British artist Glen Baxter, known for his distinctive fusion of absurdist humour and social surrealism.

This latest series showcases Baxter's use of ink and crayon, exploring the unconventional and surreal collisions between image and language that have come to define his career. In these works, Baxter revisits familiar characters, including cowboys, gangsters, and Boy Scouts. The recurring theme of “modern artrustling” can be seen in We Raced on, Desperate to Reach the Rothkos before Sundown. Here, the cowboys, in their quest to acquire or experience Rothko paintings, are ironically surrounded by the natural world’s own Rothko-like composition in the sunset. The silhouetted, elongated figures in the background resemble the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, further adding to the playful collision of high art and cowboy culture.