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Musée du Louvre

Deedee Blog, Exhibitions and Events, Inspiration, Museum Drawings, Museum Musings 16th March 201522nd December 2015 1 Comment
Art-Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery, Paris, 1868. Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

The Louvre is the book from which we learn to read. Paul Cezanne

 

The Louvre is the world’s most visited museum and one of the world’s largest.  Read more

New York Exhibition

Support Blog, Exhibitions and Events, Figures, Museum Drawings, Portfolio, Portraits, Studies 11th March 201522nd December 2015 0 Comment
New York Exhibition

In the midst of the contemporary art scene in Chelsea, New York, Xanda McCagg has a wonderful studio and gallery space, the Xanda McCagg Project Gallery. In 2014, she invited me to show some of my drawings of figures that were created in Paris over the winter.  Read more

Victory of Samothrace

Deedee Blog, Exhibitions and Events, Figures, Inspiration, Museum Drawings, Museum Musings 11th March 201522nd December 2015 1 Comment

IMG_5061The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd-century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike. She is one of the most beautiful statues at the Louvre, and one of their most famous. Read more

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Inspiration from life

To explore, question and absorb, to perceive what nature is showing us and to translate this using the intellect and emotion.

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