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Lot Essay
“As a child, I used to play around construction sites, going through the gravel pit and picking out the colourful, shiny, jewel-like ‘gems’. Now I have on the desk in my studio different pigments. There are two types of traditional pigments: one is colour ground to different sizes from natural minerals, and the other is natural dye from plants. To paint is to concoct an impression of the world, diffused with light, construed with colours that accumulate and dissolve onto the very fibre of paper.”