Hardback 300mm x 275mm
Publication date April 2005
Obtainable from Kim Sutton Gallery
£40 from the gallery.
£45 for dispatch within the UK.
Drawing is not what I see but what I can make you see
It is the unique insight of a practising artist as he explores the nature of paintings and painters that make this book so enjoyable. The author presents the argument for the importance of drawing in the study of painting, by chronicling his own artistic development and introducing a selection of Old Masters as and when they influence him at particular stages in his life. He does this with his inimitable style and inherent feel for and appreciation of painting.
When discussing studio matters, the author employs an artistic licence which enables him to travel back in time to seventeenth century Amsterdam where he meets Rembrandt in his studio. His visit is later reciprocated, and Rembrandt visits the author in Gloucestershire to discuss studio matters and the history of materials and techniques.
The statement by the French artist J.A.D.Ingres that. 'Drawing is the true test of art', is a truism. This message is almost audible in the collection of the author's own drawings and paintings that sing aloud in line and colour of a captured moment or movement.
The portfolio of drawings and paintings that intersperse the book would stand alone to make this an artistic treasure. But it is the story behind the artist himself where the reader is led from a traumatic childhood through to adulthood, parenthood and on to the projects and commissions which have taken his name across the world, that makes The Importance of Drawing from Life by Jake Sutton a masterpiece.
Comments made by fine art publishers on
The Importance of Drawing from Life
The drawings are lovely and the book is well written…
Phaidon Press Ltd
'…an extremely impressive and splendid book.'
Headline Book Publishing
It is a really beautiful publication…
New Holland Publishers
It is a wonderful book.
Andre Deutsch
This is a beautiful book…
Virgin Books Ltd
The images are wonderful and the book itself is beautifully put together.
The Lutterworth Press
It is certainly a very beautiful book…
John Murray Publishers
…Beautiful charcoal drawings of dancers.
Ebury Press
