A master of edge and surface, Roeth’s colourfield paintings combine an apparently minimalist presentation with a maximalist viewing experience. Colour is everything, colour and light and an awareness of how paintings can command and delineate architectural space.

The paintings themselves operate within that space, changing in the light as the viewer moves around them. Roeth is an alchemist, mixing his pigments and applying them in velvety layers which reveal their secrets slowly. His compositions are distilled to this level of apparent simplicity through the most minimal ingredients. Sometimes the white of the wall becomes an active part of the painting, forming a geometric grid, at other times the picture itself is divided into a harmony of lines and colours, with the matt expanse of paint broken by shimmeringly luminous lines, while in others planes of a single colour are offset by a contradictory border: an edge on which the picture turns. In a world so accustomed to instant gratification Winston Roeth’s paintings require and reward an unusual level of contemplation.

Roeth is based in Beacon, New York State. He has exhibited extensively and his work is in many important collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany; The Albright Knox Art Gallery, USA; Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, Japan; and the celebrated Panza Collection where his paintings form a site-specific installation in one of the gilded and panelled rooms of the C17th Palazzo Ducale in Sassuolo, Varese, Italy. He celebrated his 80th birthday last Autumn and following a major museum retrospective in Wiesbaden in 2020, and a new monograph in 2025, we are delighted to host our first exhibition of his work since 2011.