The Desert Series

"Anthony Lawrence’s work is characterised by a powerful sense of design. And the fierce contrasts of the desert landscape bring out the best in him. He finds variety in the pattern in the shifting sands; the shimmering sky; the flickering, changing hue of palm-tree leaves as they blow in the breeze.The oil paintings are striking, the watercolours enchanting, and both repay study. The painter’s observation is intense, as intense as the blue of that desert sky which so gradually deepens towards profundity, an imperceptible transition that Lawrence captures so well. All these highly intelligent, deeply rewarding pictures offer a refreshing paradox: of stark images and rich contrasts."

Robin Simon, The Park Gallery (London, 1999)