Insights, Discoveries, Surprises: Drawing from the Model

Patricia Morley is professor emeritus of English and Canadian studies at
Concordia University and the author of Margaret Laurence: The Long
Journey Home and As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy’s Story.

Through frank and unusual dialogue, two women artists explore what
creativity and drawing means to them. Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (b. 1923) is
an internationally known artist living and teaching in Montreal. Rhoda
Cohen is a Montreal artist and psychoanalyst.

Personalities are engaged, but long years of experience and technical
expertise anchor and add depth to the talk. The struggle of working
together, which is the theme of one talk, points to the unusual pleasure
and the “possible pain” of such sharing.

Insights, Discoveries, Surprises is generously illustrated with
full-color plates of life studies and gesture drawings, exploratory
drawings full of emotion and vulnerability. The dialogues are set off
with intriguing comments on art and creativity by famous artists. The
book should interest creators in many fields.