How Painting Happens (and why it matters) (Signed Copy) author-jean-louis-cohen from his early work as

from his early work as a caricaturist to the late paintings of waterlilies and his garden at Giverny

the expanses of strong colour

nearly seventy for the very first time

Martin Gayford’s riveting and richly illustrated book deftly brings together numerous artists’ voices

How Painting Happens (and why it matters) (Signed Copy) author-jean-louis-cohen from his early work asPainting 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 words. For those who dedicate themselves to it, the art of painting can become an all consuming, lifelong obsession. It is a subject on which painters