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Conversation with the artist

Edith Marie Pasquier introduces her selection of Artists’ profiles.

“I can however transcend the rational creatively. I made a series of thirteen drawings in late summer 2004, during the two weeks after my final diagnosis. Shock and feverish consideration of the implications meant that I could not sleep, and I made a drawing each night, sometimes in the hours of darkness, sometimes at dawn in a physical state of fatigued insomnia and slight hallucination. The flower-like drawings are images of organic growth and blooming. On the fourteenth night my normal sleep pattern returned and the series ended.” This moving extract from Ian Breakwell’s last diary speaks to us of how the link between creator and recipient is so important within any dialogue around art and artist. The artist provides a creative blur between the diary or the story as confidences and intimacies are written with an ironic detachment and the reader is left to imagine the motives of the writer. When walking around the exhibition, Diagnosis at the Anthony Reynolds Gallery in April of this year, Ian Breakwell had all too recently passed away, but each work, each list of words communicated a story, a journey revealing the nobility of the artist, his sardonic humour and...

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