Shocked by the complete omission of all women artists from the main referential book on art history, Janson’s History of Art, American painter Coral Woodbury decided to right this wrong. In this episode, she talks about ripping out the book’s pages and painting portraits in black ink of women artists upon them, how she uses palimpsest as a metaphor, how she has accumulated knowledge and experience on numerous overseas residencies, examples of a few of the extraordinary women that Janson did not include, and how she also paints, in oils and in colour, women in other series of works.

Coral Woodbury talking with Bob Chaundy

Accompanying images on consideringart.com

1952 Chevy Convertible and Drowning Artist from Havana Colours series

Ulysses from Palimpsest series

Georgia O’Keefe from Revised Edition

Lavinia Fontana from Revised Edition

Marie Braquemond from Revised Edition

All images are © Coral Woodbury

You can see more of Coral’s work on her website and on Hackelbury website

Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial