Drawing through Europe - Jeanne Bieruma Oosting

Jeanne Bieruma Oosting is again in the spotlight due to the biography Don't lose time that Jolande Withuis wrote about her. The artist, who came from a wealthy noble background, published 26 articles in Elseviers Weekblad between 1951 and 1960. First it concerned reflections on art, usually using the works discussed as illustrations.
Later she wrote stories about her travels through Europe, which she illustrated with her own drawings.

Her articles and illustrations have been collected in this book for the first time. Jolande Withuis provided the sparkling introduction 'Writing with painter's eyes'. According to Withuis, Oosting's painterly eyes, vocabulary and idiosyncratic mind produce 'an attractive prose'. She calls her drawings accurate, quick sketches, partly thanks to a new technique: the 'drawing marker'.

This richly illustrated hardcover edition has 91 pages.