The lady who couldn't sleep

As the slugglish run up to Christmas trundles along, it's wonderful when you are able to slip back into something comfortable, an old pair of metaphorical slippers thought to have been long lost at the back of a jumbled metaphorical wardrobe. Last week I revisited a body of work that I hold quite dear. Louise Bourgeois 'Insomnia Drawings' are a wonderful series of mesmeric images. They have a wistful, hazy quality, primitive yet assertive and sophisticated. An excellent demonstration of how a voracious artistic mind can perform acts of instinctive wonder, transforming the burden of insomnia into images that are utterly captivating.