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

About the book >.>.> The Royal Drawing School began as an emergency measure. There was a peculiar insistence in art education during the 1990s and 2000s that drawing from life was irrelevant yesterday’s game. That only lasted a few years and has now subsided. As we know every artist draws as a way of visual thinking and feeling of exploring both their interior and exterior worlds. Most people feel so close to their drawings that they are often embarrassed or ashamed of them. It is as though they offer a direct window onto their interior lives or their dreams – I often think that’s why people say ‘I can’t draw. Of course we can and do all draw either literally or in our imagination. Drawing can be direct incisive intimate surprising funny or confrontational. Using the most limited of means both visually and intellectually it offers some of the most demanding opportunities for growth to a contemporary artist allowing a free transition between mediums. It is one of the simplest and yet most endlessly complex of human activities encompassing a wide scope of practice and interpretation. Drawing was part of my own education. I drew every day and it was part of the warp and weft of life at art school. It is not a specific thing; it is a choice of gesture and movement and precision. I always find drawing to be the element that moves a work on that opens a window and leads to the next discovery. (MP)