This book offers insight into how Gerard Wagner developed his work on the basis of Rudolf Steiner’s indications for painting. Fundamental colour experiments illustrate his methodical approach, while examples of his late work show the living, etheric quality he achieved in his watercolour painting. In appreciation of Rudolf Steiner’s contribution toward the evolution of painting, Wagner wrote the following:
“Whoever attempts to tread this path can come to the conviction that the indications of Rudolf Steiner, if they are sufficiently penetrated and experienced, can lead one to grasp the creative formative forces of colour and to create within this life element without harming it. By giving us such pictures of life shaped by colour, Rudolf Steiner has set goals for a far future of painting.”

All of Rudolf Steiner’s training sketches for painters (pastel drawings and watercolours) are included in the book, as well as the first English translation of the summaries by Albert Steffen of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on colour.

Caroline Chanter was born in 1950 in Singapore and was educated in England. After schooling at Michael Hall, Sussex, she studied art at Exeter Art College in Devon and afterwards at Leeds Polytechnic in Yorkshire. Later, she graduated from the Margarethe Hauschka School for Artistic Therapy in Germany and, in 1983, joined the Anthroposophical Medical Practice in Forest Row, concurrently teaching at Tobias School of Art in East Grinstead, Sussex. Between 1993 and 1999 she was one of Gerard Wagner’s pupils at the Goetheanum Painting School. She now teaches at the Rudolf Steiner Painting School in Dornach, Switzerland, and at Swaasthyakala Niketan, a painting therapy school in Bangalore, India.

27 September 2024; SB; 224pp in colour; 28 x 23 cm; pb;