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Art Books On My Bookshelf

No one can ever have enough printed art books. Art Books have to be real (smile), for me they have to be printed on paper. I want to be able to touch them, have them open, for instance next to my bed and wake up to see the beauty of an artwork. Or leave them at my desk to be reminded of the textures, colour palettes, and techniques that other artists feel inspired by. My longtime favorites are artist monographs about: Eva Aeppli, Georgia O'Keefe, Emma Kunz, Henry Moore, Mark Rothko, Brancusi, Chihuly, Paul Klee, Kandinsky, Andy Goldsworthy, Takao Tanabe, Rupprecht Geiger... Dale Chihuly works primarily with glass. In my understanding he has this wonderful vision of lines, colours and shapes and is able to bring it to live by using glass. On the other hand he creates big drawings using household items to move paint around. It is a free process without prior prediction of the outcome and still it is his very personal artistic language. The Art of Dale Chihuly shows you h...

Summer Reading

What keeps me from creating new paintings in the summer? Yes, it is the beautiful sunny weather and the books. This year my summer reading list includes the following books: 'The Virgin Cure' by Amy McKay, which draw me into the 19th Century New York. Amy McKay is able to recreate the mood and the places so vividly that I sometimes smelt the muddy streets and thought I heard the carriage rattle by. I'm enjoying right now 'When God was a Rabbit' by Sarah Winman: funny, sad, uplifting, and thoughtful. Waiting to be read are the following novels by Gillian Flynn: