Learning objectives
■ How to favour tone over colour
■ Work from a black-and-white photograph
■ Be inspired by the Fauvists
My mother was very interested in art, in history, opera and ballet. Her tastes were rather orthodox and that rubbed off on me. When I was at art school, we had weekly lectures on art history which opened up a world of art that my mother had simply not bothered with. She had never been keen on modern history or twentieth century art. As my interests expanded, I came to know a bit about Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Brutalism, on their wall.
