Luke Elwes and Sam Cornish discuss Robert Motherwell's work on the occasion of the exhibition Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper at Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, on view through November 26, 2011.

Elwes notes that "it is refreshing to revisit him on a smaller scale in this show (the first dedicated to his work on paper in this country), and to see, beneath the shadow of his most iconic images, something more rapid, visceral and intuitive going on…"