I’m a huge fan of Hockney’s portraits. I particularly like the exquisitely fine and delicate ones of friends and family done in coloured pencils in the 1970s (it’s amazing how cleverly he uses blue in their faces). So I went to NPG exhibition and was delighted to see them all over again, together with a multitude of self-portraits, composite Polaroids, and huge iPad drawings. As well as admiring all these, I was particularly struck - all over again - by Hockney’s
Thank you so much for writing these letters I love them so much. I adore and treasure you books and I am so thrilled to read your letters each week and hear of your discoveries - thank you
Jane-- do you know Bonnard’s Woman with a Dog? One of my favorite paintings at The Clark in Williamstown MA. Love a good gingham. Love this post! Thank you!
Immensely enjoyed your wide ranging writing on checks; engaging, informative and humorous! Thanks for sharing it.
I’m just starting out on my artist journey, and this article is helping me understand how artist, works and styles can be knitted together. Just great!
I’ll never see checks as boring ever again! Love it. Also, thank you for introducing me to Les Sapeurs/Sapeuses! Heaven knows Congo needs a lift!! I “checked” out the website and found a darling little dandy with pipe in a perfect asymmetrical checkered skirt and fabulous orange jacket, cool boots and hat! These folks are the cat’s meow! Thanks Jane!
Such beautiful Bonnard paintings- also longtime favourites of mine - you have made me see the simple beauty of a gingham tablecloth in a new way, Jane!
Thank you Jane - I loved this (even though that Bonnard coffee pot right at the edge of the table is "triggering" as the kids say). The Hockney exhibit is only on for another week - I'd better hurry!
A lovely piece this morning Jane, off to find my Ray Stitch checks and stitch a little piece. You can never have too many checks in your sewing basket x
Such a joyful post. As well as discovering more paintings and artists I didn't know, you've made me think of the checks in my life that are full of happy memories. A seersucker tablecloth from the 1970s, in a pink, white and yellow check brings immediate Proustian recall of summer holiday breakfasts, swifts screeching outside and the whole sunny day waiting for me. A breakfast set, complete with oversized coffee cups, in Villeroy and Boch Glasgow pattern from the 1950s https://pin.it/5x1y3rNf3. The breakfast in question being taken in a house in deepest, leafiest Colinton in Edinburgh. My father's cousin's house, decor unchanged from its 1930s artistic original of black carpets, white sofas, and bathroom of black and green tiles and gleaming chrome. As I child I loved that breakfast set with an unrequited passion, never getting up the courage to ask my relative the impossible question, "Will you leave me this china when you die?"
Thank you so much for writing these letters I love them so much. I adore and treasure you books and I am so thrilled to read your letters each week and hear of your discoveries - thank you
Love the illustrations for this essay. Brought a dash of light and colour to a grey day.
Jane-- do you know Bonnard’s Woman with a Dog? One of my favorite paintings at The Clark in Williamstown MA. Love a good gingham. Love this post! Thank you!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Bonnard_Woman_with_Dog_1891.jpg
Immensely enjoyed your wide ranging writing on checks; engaging, informative and humorous! Thanks for sharing it.
I’m just starting out on my artist journey, and this article is helping me understand how artist, works and styles can be knitted together. Just great!
You never fail to hit the mark with your writing. Your unique style and choice of content is just right for me. Checks, of course, I’d forgotten!
Love, love, love David Hockney and this post. Can't find to find a blue and white checkered tablecloth to smock. None in my stash, alas.
This was a wonderful, cheering read on what is (in my neck of the woods) an extremely snowy morning. Must find myself a checked tablecloth now!
I’ll never see checks as boring ever again! Love it. Also, thank you for introducing me to Les Sapeurs/Sapeuses! Heaven knows Congo needs a lift!! I “checked” out the website and found a darling little dandy with pipe in a perfect asymmetrical checkered skirt and fabulous orange jacket, cool boots and hat! These folks are the cat’s meow! Thanks Jane!
This has perked up my Sunday no end. Thank you so much!
Such beautiful Bonnard paintings- also longtime favourites of mine - you have made me see the simple beauty of a gingham tablecloth in a new way, Jane!
Thank you Jane - I loved this (even though that Bonnard coffee pot right at the edge of the table is "triggering" as the kids say). The Hockney exhibit is only on for another week - I'd better hurry!
The perfect start to a Sunday morning, thank you for your beautifully put-together posts, the highlight of my week
A lovely piece this morning Jane, off to find my Ray Stitch checks and stitch a little piece. You can never have too many checks in your sewing basket x
Such a joyful post. As well as discovering more paintings and artists I didn't know, you've made me think of the checks in my life that are full of happy memories. A seersucker tablecloth from the 1970s, in a pink, white and yellow check brings immediate Proustian recall of summer holiday breakfasts, swifts screeching outside and the whole sunny day waiting for me. A breakfast set, complete with oversized coffee cups, in Villeroy and Boch Glasgow pattern from the 1950s https://pin.it/5x1y3rNf3. The breakfast in question being taken in a house in deepest, leafiest Colinton in Edinburgh. My father's cousin's house, decor unchanged from its 1930s artistic original of black carpets, white sofas, and bathroom of black and green tiles and gleaming chrome. As I child I loved that breakfast set with an unrequited passion, never getting up the courage to ask my relative the impossible question, "Will you leave me this china when you die?"