Drie ontwerpen voor het exterieur van een kerk 1905 - 1906

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet made these three drawings for the exterior of a church, and even though the date of this artwork is unknown, the directness of the pencil line shows an artist thinking through the possibilities. There's a kind of raw honesty in the way he works, just sketching out ideas without any fuss. You can almost feel him searching for the right form, the perfect balance. The lines are tentative in places, bold in others, and there's a real energy in the way they move across the page. Look at the hatching on the left most design. It is a dense, almost scribbled area of tonal shading which brings the design forward, but also gives an impression of the artist's searching thought. It reminds me a bit of the architectural drawings of Erich Mendelsohn. I think both of them shared a real interest in the emotional impact of architecture, how buildings can shape our experience of the world. And that's something that really resonates with me as a painter, this idea of art as a way of exploring and understanding our place in the world.