The Post-impressionist painter, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) wrote in a diary, ‘Drawing is sensation. Colour is reasoning‘. For an artist who made drawings in his diaries I assume this is a reference to his working method where he quickly recorded his sensations in front of nature. Colour, on the other hand, was only ever used in…
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Colour is Reasoning
Postcards for Shelterbox
I have just delivered a ‘postcard’ sized drawing of one of our whippets, Zola (see below), to include in Badcocks’s Christmas exhibition. It runs over two weekends, 3/4 and 10/11 December – or by appointment – at 10 Long Row (see above, ‘picture postcard’ cottage) Sheffield, Penzance, with a percentage of proceeds going towards Shelterbox. …
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