There really is something for everyone at The Other Art Fair as, I hope, the following images and posts will show. It’s well worth a visit wherever it is. From oil painted landscapes by Dawn Reader, another stand neighbour in Bristol, to a new series of paintings by John Hainsworth ;meticulous still lives by Hisham […]
Fairs
The Other Art Fair Bristol – 1 of 4
Writing this as it rains outside, The Other Art Fair Bristol with sunbathers outside the Arnolfini Gallery now feels a long way off. Every TOAF event has its communal displays with the ones here including The Colours of Bristol, an Instagram project created over 7 weeks with Bristol 247, @porthjess and @joyfulbristol – I saw it […]
Jewellery by Miki Asai at New Designers Part 1
This collection of brooches by Japanese jeweller Miki Asai shown at New Designers blew me away. A graduate from Glasgow School of Art her brooches showed such technical dexterity as well as an acute aesthetic sensibility. The discs on the brroch on the right can be turned to create different compositions and can be appreciated from all angles. […]
New Designers Part 1 – Katy Gillam-Hull at One Year On
It always surprises me when I see work at this show that I never noticed at a previous New Designers exhibition which just shows what visual overload can do. Katy Gillam-Hull is one such maker whose loving recognition and restitution of old fragments and tools were, for me at least, quite moving. Her interventions encourage us […]
Gosho No Niwa: No Wall; No War Japanese garden at Chelsea Flower Show
Given the weather I thought an outdoor post would be appropriate for this week. Nestling under the mature trees we discovered this gem designed by Ishihara Kazuyuki, a regular gold medal winner in the Artisan Garden category (plot sizes 5 x 4m or 7 x 5m) at the Chelsea Flower Show. This year he kept his […]
Art seen at The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead
Now that galleries are increasingly moving online, art fairs and pop-ups are the main shop windows for many. This time the Affordable Art Fair was at Hampstead, on the heath, a pretty location where you can almost feel you’re out of London. Galerie Nummer 40 showed these porcelain polyhedron sculptures by Mo Cornelisse . I so wanted […]