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Please contact me on 079 221 58 78, or use the contact form, if you're interested in any of these activities.

Paintings by: Sally Jones, Laura de Jonge, Vanessa Goss (after Klee), Muriel Villiger (after Carigiet), Zöe Lohmann, Lorraine Barrett, Lizi Hill

Links and Literature

This page is a work in progress. These are just a few of the books I love and some useful art links.

Art in General

Ways of Seeing by John Berger, pub. Penguin

Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford, pub. Cambridge University Press

Art or Bunk? by Ian Ground, pub. Bristol Classical Press

Hang-Ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly) by Simon Schama, pub. BBC Books

Art History

http://arthistoryabout.com

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

New York's Metropolitan Art Museum

The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich, pub. Phaidon

A World History of Art by Honour & Fleming, pub. Lawrence King

The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes, pub. Thames & Hudson

Watercolour

The Royal Watercolour Society

http://painting.about.com

Stephen Quiller online

Jeanne Dobie online

Colour Choices by Stephen Quiller, pub. Watson Guptill

Making Color Sing by Jeanne Dobie, pub. Watson-Guptill

Drawing

Betty Edwards online

http://drawsketch.about.com

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, pub Harper Collins

The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides

Business

Art materials, retail and mail order: Boesner in Munchwilen TG and Unterentfelden AG www.boesner.ch

Art materials, retail: Papeterie Zumstein, Rennweg, Zurich www.zumstein.ch and Art Ware, Seefeldstrasse 224, near Tiefenbrunnen in Zurich.

Canvases (and paint etc. too): Farben Bernhard, opposite the station in Staefa www.farben-bernhard.ch

Picture framing: Reinauer Einrahmungs- Atelier Zumikon www.buchbinderei.ch

Translation from German to English and English copywriting services. This is my other business. www.strategicenglish.com