How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) Publisher / Lannoo With the help of her

With the help of her two spirits

With an added search-and-find element

There’s no doubt about it: whether you’re a newbie or a dab hand

twenty years later

yet each of them began life as a child with a dream

How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) Publisher / Lannoo With the help of herDrawing on decades of conversations with practising artists, Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice, meaning and potential of painting. Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains vigorously alive in the twenty first century. Every successful painting creates a new world, which we inhabit for as long as we care to look at it. Paintings can incorporate profound ideas and paradoxes that can be grasped without