All texts copyright Richard Shillitoe
torn veil
1947
Ink drawing.
17ΒΌ x 12in. (44.5 x 31cm.) (ss)
Provenance
NT.
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, 1947, (drawings), no. 4.
Dublin, National College of Art, 1948, no. 89.
Penzance, Newlyn Gallery, 1976, no. 42.
The technique is entoptic graphomania.
Colquhoun has incorporated some shading, making the image softer and less austere than in other
examples of entoptic graphomania.
The veil is a metaphor for the partition that separates the material and the spiritual worlds. The symbol
of parting a veil can commonly mean obtaining new knowledge or new insights.
