In the company of friends
I thought of talking about Matisse this week, but my mind went instead to his teacher, the man who really influenced an entire generation – Gustave Moreau. Moreau was a […]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Painting with intent
There are lots of times when you’re painting that you want to throw in the towel – it’s taking too long, it’s too frustrating, you don’t know what you’re doing. […]
Winter Wedding
It was Oscar Wilde that said something about each man kills the thing he loves – in that case he was talking about remorse, I think. But destroying something you’ve […]
Process
It seems to me that one of the failures of art today is that so many artists need instant gratification. They are in a big hurry to get to the […]
Patterns
Last week, I compared this painting to Manet’s because it is the inverse of his famous ‘Dejeuner sur l’Herbe’ – here, the nude is male while the female is fully […]
