Tour: Derrick Greaves – Art Worlds - Sheffield Museums Trust

A composite image of three Derrick Greaves works. From left to right. Hokusai, Towards A Walled Garden 2, and Blossom III.

Hokusai has a brown background. Two thin pink lines split the artwork into thirds. In the central third, there are black lilypad shapes, then one orange and one red one. In the other two sections, the lilypads are all red. There are also flat, red cone shapes.

Towards A Walled Garden 2 depicts a garden wall. It looks like a mosaic, with thick black lines between the green, blue and purple coloured bricks. There are small red flowers over the wall, also outlined in black. A bright blue sky shows above the wall.

Blossom III has a green background. A black tree trunk extends up from the centre of the image, meeting a mass of pink blossom about half way that covers the top half of the image. The tree fades to a grey colour within the blossom. a small patch of yellow fills the bottom right quarter of the image, cut off by the tree trunk.

L-R: Derrick Greaves, Hokusai, 1994; Derrick Greaves, Towards A Walled Garden 2, 2021; Derrick Greaves, Blossom III, 2020 © Estate of Derrick Greaves, courtesy of James Hyman Gallery, London

Enjoy a free guided tour of the Graves Gallery’s latest exhibition, Derrick Greaves: Art Worlds.

Derrick Greaves (1927 – 2022) grew up in Sheffield and his early experiences here had a significant impact on the development of his painting. Join us to hear about this latest exhibition at the Graves Gallery, which is the first retrospective of Greaves work since his death in 2022.

Curated in collaboration with James Hyman and the artist’s estate, Art Worlds explores the sources of inspiration in Greaves’ work and presents 20 paintings made between 1942 and 2021, alongside drawings, photographs and more.

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