Image no 58 of David Breuer-Weil s Golden Drawings
- Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Hampstead artist David Breuer-Weil caught Covid just as the UK entered its first lockdown.
And his enforced isolation marked the start of daily pandemic drawings of huddled humanity, inspired by Medieval illuminated manuscripts. I had all the symptoms, he says. It was like a bad flu, coughing, night sweats, tiredness, no smell or taste. Without the publicity I would have lived with it, but the fear of what it might turn into was the worst.
Working in gold leaf and pencil, the 55-year-old drew most days between March 20 and July 2020, jotting down his thoughts alongside. The resulting 66 Golden Drawings are a personal, visual diary of the global pandemic - now on virtual display and in a book.