Sometimes paintings are so delicate they really can’t be appreciated properly in a photograph: Riccardo Guarneri‘s work seen at Gallery Rosenfeld is a case in point. These recent paintings by the octogenarian Italian were shown with those of the much younger Chinese painter Qinzhen Han: while different in age, gender and nationality, their concerns are […]
One-minute blog of interesting things
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As a working contemporary artist I visit many exhibitions and shows, but sometimes it is the things I see that are part of daily life that capture my interest. My one-minute blog of interesting things reflects the fact that although we are increasingly time-poor, there is creativity all around us.
New work by Bridget Bailey
Bridget Bailey is a textile artist whose work has featured before in my blog; I first met her many years ago when she was a milliner and I love how she uses those skills, honed over so much time, to create these exquisitely made pieces for Garden Delights, an exhibition, now online, at Byard Art in […]
The Library of Exile by Edmund de Waal, British Museum
My last cultural day out before the shut-down was visiting galleries with Tabish Khan of The Londonist and already feels like an age ago. I don’t normally mention my exhibition companions but it’s only fair to include him as he’s in the photo above and did suggest the venues that day. The Library of Exile […]
JD Malat Gallery, London
Jean-David Malat, director of JD Malat, presented a group show, The Contemporary Human Condition, which I was able to see in March just before the shutdown. The range of work was broad, as is the subject, and here are a few of the works including Liu Fei‘s trademark bald women. Mio Yamato, with her mesmeric […]
Kimono:Kyoto to Catwalk at the V&A
This exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum covers the history of the Kimono right up to the present day, from a contemporary bridal outfit above, to the individual component panels, below. A small projection showed how the kimono is constructed: made up from 8 panels the form is deceptively simple yet as a canvas […]
Me, Myself & I at Collyer Bristow Gallery
Although the gallery is a well-established space it was my first visit; a friend of mine was exhibiting in this group show curated by Rosalind Davis around the theme of self. As ever, I’ve only included a few pictures of the work here. Charmaine Watkiss‘s almost life-sized drawings were the first pieces I saw as […]
Hedda Sterne at Victoria Miro gallery
It’s always enriching to learn more about artists and the work of Hedda Sterne was no exception. This exhibition at Victoria Miro, the first solo show of her work in the UK, focused on a series of paintings and drawings from the early 1960s when she spent over a year in Venice on a Fulbright […]
Léon Spilliaert at the Royal Academy
This exhibition at the Royal Academy led me to discover the work of Belgian Symbolist Léon Spilliaert who I confess I’d never heard of before. His brooding, melancholic paintings exude isolation, even anguish, but all in a rather beautiful way with masterful use of ink, gouache, charcoal and pastel. These works ooze a sense of […]
Tom Down exhibited by Mint Art Gallery
Mint Art Gallery showed work by Tom Down at the recent London Art Fair. Using as his starting point the grand romantic landscape paintings of 19th Century artists such as Casper David Friedrich & Auguste Capelen amongst others, he explores the contrast of our current environmental situation making gorgeous models from humble, often discarded materials […]
Encounter at the London Art Fair
I’m a sucker for monochrome which was one of the reasons Encounter, a London-based contemporary art gallery, caught my eye as soon as I walked into the fair with the freshness of the work and totally distracted me from my planned schedule. I don’t want to say anything more – just look and hopefully you’ll […]
