talking to
David Sylvester
'I think the elimination of the object ... came out of the use of paint. The paint itself, the thickness of the paint, seemed to squeeze out the object .. says Moynihan about the work he was doing in 1934. Then, in his early twenties, he was producing a kind of painting akin to the Abstract Impressionism that was to become internationally current two decades later. Subsequently Moynihan became a Royal Academician, a successful portrait painter. For the last five years he has been an abstract painter again.