3. LIGHT AND SHADE

Over the past few issues I’ve been exploring the compositional lessons that we can learn from looking at other artists’ work, taking examples from current exhibitions to encourage you to get out and make studies from the work itself. Making short, focused drawn studies when you visit galleries will encourage you to look at artwork through a practical lens, borrowing lessons from the work that you can apply to your own practice.

In this final instalment I’m going to take the Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker Rembrandt van Rijn as my focus to coincide with the forthcoming exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery this autumn. Rembrandt died on 4 October 1669, so this year marks the 350th anniversary of his death and the exhibition, sitting alongside other major shows of the artist’s work in 2019,