Essays on Painting

Cassandre
all the better for that.
I am taken by the graphic design
of the lesser known poster
artists who were working between
the wars; Tamara de Lempicka,
Tom Purvis, Freda
Lingstrom, A.M.Cassandre and
Ludwig Holwein. The beautiful Holwein
economy and hard-edge quality
of their style was a direct consequence of the silkscreen
used in the reproduction of their work, and
The definitive book I have on Eliot O’Hara, written
by Carl Schmalz seeks to describe his practice,
philpsophy and teaching, I have been mainly influenced
by how he manages to abstract a complex
composition into crisp telling shapes.
Robert E. Wood was a Californian watercolourist
who influenced me greatly. Harley Brown has a
great deal of good advice for all painters and Mel
Stabin was a fresh approach to painting. Soltan
Szabo is also a good source of help and instruction,
particularly in technique.
Other Americans of note
are Andrew Wyeth, Gary
Akers and Mario Cooper,
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Coming to more modern
times, Edward Seago,
particularly his watercolours.
Moira Huntly, her
beautiful draughtsman-