The Creative Eye: An Artist's Guide to Visual Perception

by Heather Spears

A completely original concept, this title challenges practical artists of every capability and art teachers as never before. It will make them rethink what they see, how they see it, even how they name it, as well as how they reproduce it.

Genres: Art

240 pages, Hardcover

First published November 2, 2011

About the author

Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She is divorced and has 4 children. She has lived in Denmark since 1962. She has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11 collections of poetry and 5 novels. The Creative Eye (illustrated edition 2012), is the first of a series on visual perception. She has 3 books of drawings: Drawn from the Fire (1989) Massacre (1990); and Line by Line (2002). Drawings from the Newborn (1986), The Panum Poems (96) and Required Reading (2000) contain both poems and full-page drawings. Her latest collection of poetry is I can still draw (2008). She has illustrated numerous books and articles; and also draws courtroom, dance, theatre and childbirth. Specialising in drawing children, in particular premature and other threatened infants, she travels widely and has drawn in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America.