Artist

D. Delderfield

D. Delderfield is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Delderfield kept a jar of wet brushes on the radiator in his London flat and painted only between 9 and 11 a.m., after the postman passed and before the neighbors’ radio turned on. The quietest corners of the city were his studio: a corner pub, a backstreet yard, the blank side of a warehouse in Bermondsey. Look up his untitled 1960 watercolour of the Thames at low tide; it’s a single sheet of paper and a single idea, light hitting the mud and making it glow, so spare it feels like a held breath.

Works by D. Delderfield

Collections represented

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