Archive: Dec 2012

December 28, 2012

Imagination and play

The theme of imagination and play has not left me in the past weeks, as illustrated by hospital drawings, among others, which seem to have worried some of my friends recently. Sitting with the family around a Christmas fireplace, we discuss once…

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December 14, 2012

A drawing

An entry in the ‘books’ supplement of our daily newspaper shows an amazing sketch of a person drawing in bed in what must be a most uncomfortable position. The lines are simple, the scene is gripping, it could be a child or an adult, but there is also a quality which…

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December 8, 2012

Snow

Today we are hulled in snow. Contrasts in shapes and lines are amplified, and trees and bushes look suddenly beautiful no matter how unkempt they normally are. This is what I have found within two hundred square meters.

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