ArtCulture.UK · July 17, 2025
Art Liard: A Review by Anthony Fawcett
By Anthony Fawcett
Legendary critic Anthony Fawcett — once curator to John Lennon and Yoko Ono — follows Art Liard's journey, comparing her still lifes to Cézanne.
Anthony Fawcett, the celebrated art critic and historian who served as personal curator to John Lennon and Yoko Ono and interviewed Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Andy Warhol, devoted an essay in ArtCulture.UK to Art Liard's painting — opening, tellingly, with Shakespeare.
He singled out works recently shown at the Boomer Gallery in London: The Guard of the Forest Mystery, with its "exquisitely painted crow, or raven, resplendent in his glossy inky black and blue plumage"; Beetles and the Riddle of Lost Time; and the spare, luminous Silence by the Window. He admired her habit, like Cézanne's, of drawing en plein air.
Painted with broad confident brushstrokes, this small work would have made Cézanne proud.
— Anthony Fawcett, ArtCulture.UK
Fawcett closed by committing to keep following her development: "It has been so rewarding to study in depth and get to follow Art Liard's journey through her art, and I look forward to the next chapter."