I enjoyed Nadia Beard’s article about the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky “How to listen to a painting” (Arts, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, October 25).
I have been exploring this subject in my painting for decades and for many years I was frustrated that when exhibiting in the Leamington Music Festival every May, it was totally silent.
Then, three years ago I found the answer: a QR code that enabled the visitor to listen to the music that had inspired the painting they were looking at. It astonished and delighted everyone.
I was therefore pleased to read that at the Kandinsky exhibition the Centre Pompidou and the Philharmonie de Paris had handed out headphones, enabling gallery visitors to fully experience the paintings. A big problem is that music exists in time while painting is two dimensional. How to express time passing in a painting is another challenge?
Jane Williams
Artist in Residence, Leamington Music, Leamington Spa,
Warwickshire, UK
