John McEwen
Colouring Pens
Painting: Mysteries & Confessions
By Tess Jaray
Lenz Books 127pp £15
Almanac
By Jeffery Camp
Royal Academy of Arts in association with Art Space Gallery/Michael Richardson Contemporary Art 160pp £35
These books are forcible reminders that artists know best about art and can write best about it. Both authors taught at the Slade, are Royal Academicians – Tess Jaray elected this summer, Jeffery Camp in 1984 – and demonstrate how much that institution still has to offer.
Jaray is an abstract painter of precise pattern and solid colour, and the designer of the pavement of Centenary Square, Birmingham, and the floor of Victoria Station, among other public commissions. Her book contains thirty-eight essays, some less than a page in length, each crafted as meticulously as
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