Craft
Four techniques, each with its own subjects. Pastels for portraits, oils for still lives and formal portraits, charcoal and sanguine for horses, watercolour for flowers and country scenes.
Her most recognisable stride. Layers of colour blended with the fingers, slowly worked into the grain of the paper: a warm light that comes out of the ground, with contours that stay soft even where the mark is decisive. It is the technique of the most intimate portraits — motherhood, women’s faces, scenes of tenderness.
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For large flowers, autumn still lives, more formal portraits. Oil allowed her long passages, glazes overlapping until the tones of skins, leaves and folds of veil were built up. Underneath, always the same patience.
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The horses, above all. A passion inherited from her grandfather and father, fixed in a few rapid strokes: the mane, the hoof, the muscle in motion. The sanguine just warming the white of the paper, the charcoal holding the masses firm.
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