Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them..

The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the e….

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms o….

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent..

Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself ….