Opera of all sorts, Phillip Glass ensemble, Motown, deep Southern Fried Blues, Melissa Etheridge, Helene Feldman, Aretha Franklin,Odetta, Cecilia Bartoili
Movies
"Wild Strawberries", "The Seventh Seal", and any film by David Lynch, Powell and Pressburger, Jean Cocteau, Jan Svankmajer, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Jim Jarmusch, Almodovar, Alfred Hitchcock
Television
Dexter, Battlestar Galactica, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Xena:Warrior Princess (so sue me!)
Books
anything and everything by The Brontes, Thoman Mann, JD Salinger, Thomas Wolf, Bruno Bettleheim, Fritjof Capra, Saki, Dorothy Parker, Carol Sheilds, Katherine Mansfield, Carson McCullers, Franz Kafka, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Carl Jung, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and dumbed-down books about quantum physics
Heroes
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Laurie Lipton had a great time in Liverpool. The show looks fab & is on until the end of the month so see it if you can! xx Posted at 7:09 PM Nov 5 view more
I was born in New York and have been drawing since the age of four. I've lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and have made my home in London since 1986. My work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. I was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School.... all that detail!! After trying to teach myself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Masters, I developed a unique cross-hatching drawing technique that matched their method of painting by building up form with thousands of tiny lines. Although tedious, the result was a beautiful, clear tonality and astonishing detail. It's an insane way of drawing, though.
It was all abstract and conceptual art at my university. I cut my classes and sat for hours in the library copying Durer, Memling and Van Eyck. So even though I went to one of the best universities for art in the USA, I am self-taught. My weird way of drawing took a horrendous amout of time, but I was able to get the same kind of luminous quality that the Renaissance Flemish painters had achieved. My teachers tried to dissuade me and get me to "draw for drawing's sake" and loosen up, but I knew what I wanted. I ached to make something no one had ever seen before with pencil.
Diane Arbus was another of my inspirations, and her use of black and white (the color of ghosts, memory and madness) opened up a world of possibilities for me.
Happy Birthday you amazing talented woman! I am the one who was walking out of Alice's London flat near Sloane Square as you were walking in. Was lovely to see the video on facebook - an Alice posting!
