A Curator’s View
Alexandra Gerstein | Toast | 12th June 2026
Hepworth felt that her use of colour was “accepted but not understood”. It first appeared in her pre-war painted wood and plaster sculptures. After meeting Mondrian, she brought it into drawings as well as some bronze sculptures. Using colour so extensively underlines her view that colour and form together “achieve a new power & experience”. Not all critics feel this was as novel as she claimed, but does it matter? Hepworth remains “British art’s nature goddess”.