The Reading Room - Betty Edwards

Profile and Personal Reflections
Comments by Chris Rodgers

Betty Edwards is Professor Emeritus of Art at California State University. She is a writer and management consultant, whose first book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, uses insights into the functioning of the brain to teach people how to draw. However, as the Los Angeles Times has pointed out: "Not only is [it] a book about drawing, it is a book about living. . . . It emancipates."

Edwards' books - especially her first - are aimed primarily at learning how to draw; and they are worth exploring from that perspective alone. However, we have also found them useful as a source of metaphor for important aspects of organisational dynamics, which is why the books are included here.

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