Trees on the way back from Ravel’s house as night fell; one of Caspar David Friedrich’s moons above the tracery of winter branches; an early pattern book – tracery in print; Antwerp Lace – highlights on black cloth – delicate, graphic beauty. Women working, a woman working, painstaking work: for the finest lace 10 hours, perhaps, for a 3cm square – almost to scale then, in a magic lantern slide, carefully labelled.
'Workshop' (pencil on Fabriano), 25.5cm x 23cm
'Workshop' (detail)
'Pattern Book', 25cm x 18cm
'Cutwork Design', oil on panel, 25cm x 18cm
'Lacemaker', pencil on Fabriano, 21.8cm x 21.8cm
'Lacemaker' (detail)
'Point de France', pencil on Fabriano, 36.3cm x 23.3cm
'Point de France' (detail)
'Antwerp Lace', pencil on Fabriano, 24.7cm x 21.4cm
'Backdrop', pencil on Fabriano, 17cm x 16.4cm
'Backdrop' (detail)
'Headlights', pencil on Fabriano, 23cm x 17.5cm
'Eclipse', oil on panel, 20cm x 15cm
'Friedrich Moon', oil on panel, 20cm x 15cm