Best known as a sculptress, Hepworth produced a series of oils and drawings that reveal an intuitive and sympathetic feel for a medium that the artist is not so often associated with. Their importance lies in the context in which they were produced and the way in which a sculptor uses drawing and painting as a means of generating sculptural ideas.
The abstract studies, for example, reveal Hepworth's exploration of ideas about space and rhythm, usually associated with constructivism, that became important not only to her carving after the war but also to the whole language of sculpture.