GEOMETRY AND ABSTRACTION
In 2000 Hollweg accepted his largest and most ambitious commission – a mural for the Oscar Bar and Restaurant at the Charlotte Street Hotel in London. As with his landscape reliefs and portraits, geometric structure played a crucial part in the mural. The resulting work is a remarkable technical and artistic achievement.
In the year’s following this commission Hollweg’s art was dominated by continued exploration of geometry and landscape. He also returned to the iconography of his work from the 1970s, looking at it with fresh eyes.
Watercolour and ink on paper, 31 x 38 cm
This watercolour returns to some of the imagery of Hollweg’s earlier work. But while in the 1970s industrial buildings had been ‘ironic temples…magnificent and imposing’, they now prompted thoughts of ‘acid rain and global warming, climate change and fossil fuels, motor pollution, renewable energy and aeroplanes’.
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Acrylic on paper, 37 x 52 cm
Hollweg’s motorway paintings were an extension of his interest in journeys and the promise of the open road. In Motorway Quartet he presents an abstracted view of the countryside as seen through a car window. The landscape becomes a series of colourful shapes.
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Watercolour and acrylic ink on paper, 17 x 21 cm
In 2012 Hollweg produced a series of works inspired by the streets of Watchet. He returned to the same scenes repeatedly, depicting them with varying degrees of abstraction and in different media.
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Scrap wood, paper, acrylic paint, PVA, and shellac polish, 40 x 28 cm
This is Hollweg’s only known self-portrait. It is an abstracted composition of carved wood and colourful shapes, showing him playing instruments including the sousaphone and banjo.
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