Holland Park Avenue Study was inspired by a painting of the same name by Mark Boyle and is currently displayed at the Tate Liverpool Modern British Art Museum. The work was commissioned by COMA [Contemporary Music For All] and written in 2002. The theme follows on from my recent works inspired by nature

The painting Holland Park Avenue Study forms part of a project — Journey to the Centre of the Earth — which has been in progress since the mid 1960s by Mark Boyle and his family. The project involves the duplication of a thousand sites across the world which are selected from a map at random. Holland Park Avenue Study is one of a series of a hundred sites selected from an area in West London.

Although the painting is two meters squared I feel the work spreads endlessly beyond the picture frame to West London and onwards to the rest of the world. I was attracted by Mark Boyle’s simple yet complex lines and his contrast of colors. 

– Karen Tanaka