David Barton
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Working in the privacy and intense concentration of notebooks for many hours each day has always been important to me and in 1964-6 while studying with the late Anton Ehrenzweig, initially as a student at Goldsmiths, I began working under his guidance on what he called "Tease and Worry" books. These are notebooks in which ideas are tested and pursued relentlessly through drawings, paintings, texts etc; in order to identify, realize and understand a personal imagery through respect for the spontaneous interruptions offered by the creative process itself. This allows the development of an intuitive dialogue between the artist and the emerging content of the work in which the unconscious can stimulate the disclosure of otherwise ignored and suppressed insights and revelations.
