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 […]
Artists
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]