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Ghilardi encouraged him to experiment with watercolours, gouache, and pastels, which he extensively used later in his work.

Later, he’ll transfer these images to silk, stretch them onto wooden frames, and add bouquets of flowers and explosions of patterns with gouache paint.

Counts’ ominous and whimsical creatures — ceramic spiders, moths, cats and robed matriarchs, or women depicted in gouache and watercolor — are all eyes, mystical portals into a different world steeped in mauves, burgundies and ochres.

A pioneer of the Black Arts Movement in Britain, Ms. Johnson creates large, delicately drawn works on paper with pastels and gouache and acrylic paint that have the scale and potency of paintings.

His artwork gradually evolved from fliers, posters and album covers into silk-screened graphics, linocut etchings and gouache paintings.