Ian McKeever - Henge Paintings : Anomie Publishing : 9781910221419 : 1910221414 : 01 Jul 2022 : With a career spanning more than five decades, Ian McKeever is one of Britain's most senior artists working on the international stage. This, his latest publication, documents the Henge paintings??a series started in 2017 and completed over the course of five years, inspired by prehistoric standing stones in the county of Wiltshire, England, and continuing the artist's long-standing investigation into the languages and possibilities of abstract painting.Comprising thirty paintings along with numerous works on paper, the genesis of the series was a visit by McKeever to the world-famous neolithic site in the village of Avebury in 2016, where he took black and white photographs of the large stones that form three discrete circles: two smaller ones contained within the largest. Erected some 4,500 years ago, Avebury is the largest stone circle in Britain, and forms part of what English Heritage a