Ian McKeever Sentinel X London Gallery Painting Postcard

RA7 (-4) This is a beautiful undated but modern published official postcard from Londons Royal Academy Of Arts for this great 2003 painting by Ian McKeever called Sentinel X with artist details, dates, dimensions etc & Royal Academy Of Arts logo on reverse being the official souvenir from when exhibited unused and mint. 

This is one of McKeevers 'Sentinel' group of paintings (2003-5), which were first exhibited at the Alan Cristea Gallery in 2004. At the beginning of the twenty-first century McKeever was also working on his Four Quartets, a series of sixteen paintings divided into four groups (corresponding with T.S. Eliots series of poems). In particular, the 'Sentinel' paintings (and their corresponding works on paper) relate to the 'Here' group from the Four Quartets. Equally in the way that an inner light seems to radiate out from the paintings, the 'Sentinel' paintings form part of a clear development from McKeevers earlier 'Door' paintings to the 'Sentinel' and 'Here' groups, which all manifest this quality. It was discussed by McKeever (a regular writer) in a text, Light and Heat, Black and White.