Box MS F BOX 4262

Contains doodles, clippings, drawings and notes; notes on Miro on page 37; created during Howard Arkley’s & Elizabeth Gower’s trip to Paris and New York in 1977-8.

Contains travel notes, doodles, and some drawings; notes include list of costs for Amsterdam and London, notes on visits to Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain; costs in sterling and notes re London galleries; and on page 153 a list of books bought in London by Arkley and Gower; created during Howard Arkley’s & Elizabeth Gower’s trip to Paris and New York in 1977-8.

Contains of compositional studies, including numerous door-format sketches; arabesques; also Paisley-pattern sketches relating to the painting Psychedelic Painting (1978); photograph of doodles adhered to page 5; spray painted doodle in red, on page 20; also notes on Art Deco and Art Nouveau patterning.

Includes illustrations on front cover, back cover and inside back cover; includes door-format and paisley-patterned compositional sketches; arabesque sketches, noted as 'curvilinear style' on page 34; design on newsprint adhered to page 16; and notes on ornament.

Includes compositional sketches; and sketches and planning notes relating to paintings dating from 1978-9, including ‘Curvilinear’ (1978), ‘Baroque’ (1979) and ‘Isotype’ (1979); p. 61 Notes on Arkley's desire to "re-energize abstract painting"; p. 64 notes on symbolism; includes some diagrams and list of art concepts on inside back cover.

Contains compositional sketches, schemes for furniture installations; and early sketches and plans for cacti, suburban imagery etc.; drawings for ‘Chair person’ (p. 20-21); and one 35 mm. colour slide showing an art installation (?) adhered to p. 57 with masking tape.