Signed, titled and dated verso

A painting by John Plumb from the same series as Bramshill is currently hanging at Tate Britain in Art & the 1960's, This was Tomorrow . Titled Edgehill it was first shown in Situation in 1960, an exhibition at the Royal Society of British Artists organised by a group of leading painters who were frustrated by the lack of opportunities to show their work. Supported by the influential critic and curator, Lawrence Alloway, works were selected on the basis of being 'abstract' (that is, without reference to the outside world) and not less than 30 square feet.

In Bramshill, the process of making the work has its own fascination. The painted background is overlaid with narrow coloured tapes in primary colours, creating a fascinatingly complex map-like surface, as though the artist is responding to the increasing mechanisation of the modern world.

Kunsthalle, Basel