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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Drawing is like breathing the most natural form of making a work of art and the beginning of any painting or sculpture. A sketchbook is an extra limb always there and a way of automatic thinking. Sitting in front of a sheet of paper with a pencil is a meditation. Drawing can be more than a quick skench or study. You can spend a great deal of time over each drawing devoting hour upon hour and working up the sheet until it is a profound expression and this is a type of meditation that allows unconscious images to materialise. Drawing with charcoal or lead is the most ancient art-it connects us to the cave paintings where the first expressions known to us from early man depict hands animals and other people. That instinct remains and comes to the fore in times of co and change like the present moment. These drawings are the visual embodiment of thought. They are filled with symbols dreams philosophies fears and ideas. They are landscapes of the mind at a very particular and unique time. Sometimes you can turn fear these and tragedy into art. I had resisted gold because I considered it two decorative for much of my life. But here the gold is uncanny intense like the unusual radiant weather that was in England during most of the lockdown quite unprecedented for this time of year as if a different reality had descended on the (LL)