ERIK AND DRAWING

At the age of 20 he specialized in  portrait drawing under Frank Slater in London.

In the early fifties, he produced a series of pencil drawings of the euphorbias. He found that they lacked depth and strength so he decided to burn wood to make his own charcoal and fixative by mixing orange shellac and methylated spirits which darkened the paper thereby obtaining the depth and strength he was seeking.

These studies lead to a series of major paintings interpreting the euphorbias in 1955. 

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