Cathy Daley is a Canadian artist best known for her black pastel drawings on vellum that depict female torsos and legs, usually wrapped in flowing dresses or tutus. Daley’s work emphasizes the ...

For over 300 years, La Maison du Pastel has handcrafted these pastels, used by artists like Degas. Today, the company is run and operated by just two women — Isabelle Roché, a distant relative ...