• Trois Crayons

    Trois Crayons celebrates the art of drawing from the 15th to the 21st century. From in-person exhibitions and collaborative events to our monthly magazine and social media activity, we connect the global drawings community.

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  • THE TROIS CRAYONS MAGAZINE

    MARCH 2026

    French exhibitions take centre stage this month as the focus of three special features.

    The edition also includes: a submission to the Trois Crayons Museum Forum from the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth | news headlines, gallery listings, announcements, events and recent institutional acquisitions | Sarah Catala’s Drawing of the Month | a Demystifying Drawings interview with Ulysse Jardat on the seventeenth-century Italian drawings of the Musée Condé | Nicolas Bousser’s review of Rosso and Primaticcio: Renaissance at Fontainebleau at the Beaux-Arts de Paris | exhibition listings | the Real or Fake quiz | audio, video and literary recommendations.

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  • Trois Crayons Events Programme Recordings

    The recordings of the Tracing Time events programme are now online and can be viewed in full at the link below.
    Thank you to all the speakers, partners and attendees who came to the No.9 Cork Street auditorium and supported our many partnership events.

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  • Trois Crayons Museum Forum

    We are delighted to announce the launch of the Trois Crayons Museum Forum, an innovative digital platform dedicated to the discussion and identification of pre-modern drawings in public collections.

    Launched in the summer of 2025, this international subject specialist network fosters collaboration between curators, scholars, art dealers, and the wider public.

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About us

Detailed drawing of lemons, representing the Trois Crayons story and technique

Trois Crayons was founded by Alesa Boyle, Tom Nevile and Sebastien Paraskevas with the aim of increasing the awareness, accessibility, and visibility of drawings in all their forms.

Trois Crayons offers a centralising space for all drawing-related activity worldwide, to facilitate and encourage engagement with the historic “father” of the arts. From in-person exhibitions and collaborative events to our monthly newsletter and social media activity, we connect the global drawings community.

The name, Trois Crayons, derives from the French term meaning “three crayons”, a drawing technique using black, white and red chalks which rose to prominence in mid-18th century France and has a particular aesthetic appeal when used in combination.

The art of drawing has a rich and fascinating history which is ever relevant to the present moment. In the words of Vincent van Gogh, “drawing is the root of everything”. To Giorgio Vasari, the 16th century biographer, artist and art historian, drawing (disegno) was both an intellectual and practical process, it was the father to the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture and fundamental to all creative processes.

Trois Crayons champions this primacy of drawing and simplifies access for the digital generation to all the disparate elements that make up today’s world of drawing.

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