Book of the Week: Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint by Cate Haste
‘The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician,’ wrote Hippocrates,
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
She allows herself a burst of pride at the completed painting, as if a part of her already knows it will be a very long time before she holds a brush in her hand again.
Emilia Hart • The Sirens: The highly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of WEYWARD
The artist is someone who is full of questions, who cries them out in great angst, who discovers rainbow answers in the darkness, and then rushes to canvas or paper. ~ Madeleine L’Engle
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
Hockney’s telling point is that it is not enough merely to look at a work: if an artist wants to learn from it, they need to make their own record of it, and in doing so, come to fathom it better. This is how art lives and grows.
Roland Allen • The Notebook
Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is considered art history’s foundational text.