• Tracing Time, Summer 2025 Exhibition

    Frieze, No.9 Cork Street, London W1S 3LL
    26 June – 5 July 2025
    Weekdays 10:00 – 18:00
    Weekends 11:00 – 17:00
    Free Entry

    Opening Reception (Vernissage)
    25 June 2025
    18.00 –21.00
    RSVP - rsvp@troiscrayons.art

    Events Programme

  • Tracing Time Events Programme

    The Trois Crayons Talks & Events Programme returns this summer with an expanded series of public events. All talks and tours are free to attend and bring together leading voices from across the world of Old Master drawings.

  • trois crayons museum forum

    We are delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of the Trois Crayons Museum Forum, an innovative digital platform dedicated to the discussion and identification of Pre-Modern drawings in public collections. Launching in the summer of 2025, this international subject specialist network will foster collaboration between curators, scholars, art dealers, and the wider public.

  • Newsletter of the month

    Greetings from Trois Crayons HQ where we are busy readying for our second annual exhibition, Tracing Time, which returns to No.9 Cork Street from June 26 to July 5. Read on for details, preview highlights, and a taster of the events programme which will be available for registration on Friday.

    Regular newsletter service resumes with a round-up of this month’s leading news stories, upcoming events and exhibitions listings, a ‘Drawing of the Month’ from the Clark Art Institute, provided by William Satloff, and the customary selection of literary and audio highlights, which is followed, as ever, by the ‘Real or Fake’ section.

  • 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 newsletter and social media activity, we connect the global drawings community.

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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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