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in Paris with her husband Jean-Charles in 2002
Behind them is the same lyric impulse that sustains all his best work: 'It's like getting a quick image of something in a dark cave' he said
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Rainforest Charles Blackman text by Al Alvarez ideas Paperback with matching dustwrapperAlvarez, Al (Charles Blackman, illus.) Rainforest Macmillan, Melbourne Vic., 1988 Hardcover . 'By nature, Blackman is a lyric artist who tends to work fast and to rely a great deal on his technical virtuosity. The rainforest paintings, however, are different. He told me he had painted them in one long burst, but only after a five year gestation period, and each had taken him weeks, not days, to complete. Behind them is the same lyric impulse that