Large Oil Painting After Picasso Cubist-Influenced Hillside Village by Terence Matthew Kane
Terry Kane (Terence Matthew Kane) 2002 “After Picasso” Large Cubist-Influenced Hillside Village — Original Oil on Canvas 🏘️
A striking, large original oil on canvas by Liverpool artist Terry Kane (Terence Matthew Kane, 1970–2015), signed “Terry Kane” and dated “02” (2002) on the reverse. A confident statement piece with strong architecture and mood—well suited to collectors of Liverpool art and Expressionist-influenced British painting.
Subject & medium 🖌️
A Cubist-influenced village tumbling down a hillside: warm, red-roofed houses stacked in rhythmic blocks, a tall church spire rising at the centre, a bridge/viaduct spanning the valley, and a bright river/stream cutting through the composition beneath dense, rounded trees. The image feels familiar yet reimagined—less a literal “view,” more a place rebuilt through memory, colour, and design.
Kane is documented as working in oils, mainly on canvas, which aligns with this work’s materials and format.
Composition & technique ✨
Built from interlocking planes and simplified forms, the painting generates motion across the surface. Rooftops and façades tilt and compress perspective, giving the village an architectural “construction” rather than a conventional recession into space. The spire anchors the picture, while the bridge and waterway lead the eye back through the valley. Soft tonal modelling and a restrained palette hold everything together—decorative at distance, richly absorbing up close.
“After Picasso” and Cubist colour 🧩🎨
In the published Nerve Magazine tribute by Gayna Rose Madder, Kane’s early influences are described as including Pablo Picasso and the Cubists, particularly in relation to colour.
That influence is readable here in the way the village is organised into angled, stacked shapes, and in how colour is used to build structure—warm reds and ochres pressing forward against deep greens, making form through harmony as much as description.
Cultural significance, style & emotion 🎭
Nerve’s artist profile also notes Kane’s major influence from the German Expressionists. This work sits between Cubist structure and Expressionist feeling: recognisable, intimate subject matter intensified by compressed space and leaning forms—like a place remembered with emotion rather than recorded as fact. The bright waterway becomes a streak of movement and light through the centre, giving the scene a sense of passage and lived atmosphere. 🌿🔥💧
About the artist (published tribute) 🧑🎨
Kane is profiled by Nerve Magazine, which documents his oil-on-canvas practice and influences.
Nerve also published Gayna Rose Madder’s tribute online on 12 May 2016, reflecting on Kane as a singular, uncompromising presence within Liverpool’s cultural fabric.
Exhibitions 🗓️📍
Nerve’s profile states Kane exhibited in Liverpool over a number of years, including venues such as the Academy of Artsand the Urban Coffee Lounge.
A documented listing also notes “Terence Kane Retrospective Exhibition” at Bridewell Studios, Liverpool, 5–10 October 2015.
Signed ✍️
Signed “Terry Kane” and dated “02” on the reverse (verso) (2002).
Dimensions (Framed) 📏
Height: 99 cm
Width: 64.5 cm
Depth: 2 cm
Large, statement scale with excellent wall presence. 🖼️✨
Presentation 🖼️
Offered unframed on its stretcher (approx. 2 cm depth), ready to hang as-is or frame to taste.
Provenance 📜✅
Curated by Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD and acquired from an antiques dealer Gordon of “Remains to be Seen,” Lark Lane (Liverpool). (Provenance supplied as stated by the seller.) 🏛️🧾
Why you’ll love it 💛
✅ Statement scale — nearly a metre tall (99 cm) for immediate wall impact.
✅ “After Picasso” Cubist influence — angled, stacked forms and interlocking planes create a dynamic architectural build.
✅ A composition that pulls you in — spire, bridge/viaduct and bright waterway guide the eye through the valley again and again.
✅ Cohesive, confident colour — warm reds/ochres set against deep greens deliver rhythm, depth and atmosphere.
✅ Mood with emotional charge — recognisable yet transformed; memory and feeling over literal topography, with Expressionist intensity.
✅ Collectable Liverpool artist — a signed, dated (2002) original oil on canvas by Terry Kane.
✅ Display-ready versatility — hang as-is on stretcher or frame to taste.
Condition report 🔍
Please review the photos carefully as they form part of the description. The canvas is stretched and presentable; with foxing stains, along with some small white paint staining on the side. The reverse shows typical age/handling marks and staples consistent with a studio-stretched canvas. Hanging wire present on the reverse.
