Buttons 1935 - 1942

Charlotte Winter’s work, "Buttons," is a simple arrangement of, well, buttons. I imagine it's made with delicate brushes and muted watercolours. I wonder, what was Winter thinking, arranging these humble objects on the page? I get a sense that, like a painter, Winter worked in multiple layers, allowing for shapes to emerge and shift. Maybe she was attracted to their miniature worlds, each a little cosmos of shape and color. I love the imperfections in the circles, the way they wobble and breathe, the way the colours are gently smudged. This reminds me of the work of other painters who focused on the everyday, like Morandi with his bottles. There's an ongoing conversation between artists across time. Winter makes me think about how we find the extraordinary in the ordinary, and how a simple, unassuming thing can be a portal to another world.