Joshua Blackburn, who I met during Clerkenwell Design Week, recently launched The Artful Project with his partner Rachel Hotchkiss, selling limited edition contemporary photographic prints. They spotted a gap in the market for affordable prints, either framed or unframed at incredibly reasonable prices (starting from just £75). No need to go to a standard shop […]
Artists
The Other Art Fair – featured artists part 3 of 3
Last, but certainly not least, is Rod McIntosh. Trained in sculpture, he now works with gesso and print. There’s a strongly sensual charge to the work which I hope you get a hint of from my photos here. The marks are not on but in his gesso paintings, absorbed into the surface. Rod told […]
The Other Art Fair – featured artists part 2 of 3
Dolores de Sade has complete mastery of her chosen medium, etching, as shown below. Her concerns include the memory, myth and nostalgia of landscape. These prints could, at first glance, come from a Victorian book but reward repeated viewing. “Junction 4, A2” below looks like some exotic jungle. The work exhibited by Emma Davis could […]
The Other Art Fair: featured artists part 1 of 3
This is a relatively new addition to the art fair circuit and well worth attending if you can. The Other Art Fair runs twice per year and is where artists show and sell their work direct to the public. They are on the stand so can therefore talk to you about their work and answer any […]
James Turrell at Pace Gallery, London
Regular readers know I am an advocate of taking time to see and be, so I highly recommend Pace Gallery’s current exhibition of James Turrell light pieces ; a place to slow the heartbeat, lower blood pressure and absorb the artwork. Give yourself time to experience all the different colour changes – my photos are […]
Brancusi’s Studio in Paris
Some places I never tire of visiting and this, just by the Pompidou Centre in Paris, is one. Brancusi gave his studio to the nation with the pre-condition that it remained exactly as he had left it. Casts, finished work and objects from his daily life all exist together in perfect balance. Well, almost perfect. One of […]