Corsham Model 1953

Editor: So this is “Corsham Model,” by Peter Lanyon, currently held at the Tate. There's an energy to the brushstrokes, but it feels… unresolved, somehow. What do you see in it? Curator: Ah, Lanyon. He’s wrestling with something here, isn’t he? The Cornish landscape, maybe? He never quite gives us the full picture, just glimpses, hints. It's like a half-remembered dream, isn't it? He lets his feelings about the place bleed onto the canvas. Editor: So it’s less about depicting Corsham and more about expressing a feeling? Curator: Exactly! And isn’t that more interesting? He's inviting us to feel it, too. A landscape of the mind! Editor: I didn’t see it that way at first, but that makes so much more sense now. Curator: That's the joy of art, isn't it? The more you look, the more it reveals.