Haunting interiors, kimonos galore and Lancashire Life magazine: what I’ve learned from snooping inside artist’s homes

From Louise Bourgois’s spooky Chelsea brownstone to the New Jersey abode of 98-year-old painter Lois Dodd, I’ve visited many female artists’ homes – and seen their work from a fresh perspectiveLast month I visited the New Jersey home of the 98-year-old artist Lois Dodd. Painting since the 1940s, Dodd is known for capturing the view outside her window – at night, during the day, in New York, from the countryside. She paints what is near to her, and loves to depict the “theatre of nature”, as she describes it. “Because it is always changing, so you always see something different.”While any of us can look out of our windows, and capture what we see, Dodd’s works are distinct. On the day I drove down to her white-planked home/studio on the springiest of days, surrounded by saturated greens and yellows, I felt as if I was in a Dodd painting like Red Laundry and Window Frame or Front Door Cushing. Continue reading...

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