The Language of Painting

Looking at Pictures from an Artist’s Point of View

2011 Aldeburgh Literary Festival

2011 Canterbury University

2011 Marlborough College (Conference for Preparatory School Headmasters)

Lecture

In their presentation of exhibitions, there is a tendency amongst museum curators to write expansively on background history, artist’s biography and the subject matter of the painting, all of which can he useful as a way of seeing a picture in context