How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) Publisher / C&T Publishing This embroidered wool cushion cover

This embroidered wool cushion cover features artwork by Mary Anne Nampinjinpa Michaels

Thompson Yuludjiri

Christie Dawes

and offer the objects new life and meaning

written by co-author of the Uluru Statement from the Heart

How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) Publisher / C&T Publishing This embroidered wool cushion coverDrawing 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