Adding The Blue: Paintings by Chrissie Hynde

by Chrissie Hynde

"I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll. Finally, I thought, 'Now's the time.' As soon as I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn't stop." – Chrissie Hynde " These paintings wake me up, show me life, make me want to get up and do something." – Brian Eno "The fact that Chrissie is a great musician doesn’t undermine her painting; it underpins it…" – Tim Marlow In 2015, Chrissie Hynde, the singer, songwriter and leader of The Pretenders, produced an oil painting of a ceramic vase. It proved to be the starting point for Chrissie Hynde’s first body of work, nearly 200 canvases in all. These paintings are now shared for the very first time in Adding The Blue . Beginning with still life studies and culminating in vibrant abstract compositions, Adding The Blue is a beautiful book of paintings that reveals Chrissie Hynde as an artist as passionate about her painting as her music. With forewords by visionary musician and artist, Brian Eno, and The Royal Academy’s Artistic Director, Tim Marlow, Adding The Blue is captioned throughout with Chrissie Hynde’s thoughts, anecdotes and reflections. Published in hardback the front cover features the work, ' Tuesday Self-Portrait'

212 pages, Hardcover

Published November 13, 2018

About the author

Chrissie Hynde is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known as the leader of the Pretenders. Hynde released nine studio albums as the Pretenders, beginning with1980’s Pretenders, which Rolling Stone ranked in the top 15 best debut albums of all time. Most recently, she released the album Stockholm, under her own name, in 2014. She lives in London.

Reviews

[Nicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this so much that I finally purchased it. She isn't a "perfect artist," which she makes reference to throughout, but she is a most impassioned one. I enjoyed the art, and I enjoyed her commentary, like when she realizes she became beyond obsessed with flowers and had to move on to abstracts before she lost her mind. So talented, yet humble, I love her ability to say "this is my passion, it is a work in progress, man," and it impressed upon this reader her bigger unspoken truth: "I'm doing this, what are you doing?"

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful book of Chrissie Hynde’s paintings with some of her insights. If you are a super fan of Ms. Hynde’s, then you will love this book..