Zachary Eastwood-Bloom: Rewired is an exhibition of mainly new work produced in response to the end of life and death of the artist’s father who was himself an artist. The show opens with these two pages found folded together among Eastwood-Bloom’s late father’s possessions. Norman Eastwood’s beautiful handwriting about abstraction sits next to drawings which […]
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom: Rewired at Pangolin London
The Last Caravaggio at the National Gallery, London
Caravaggio‘s tightly cropped scenes and dramatic lighting are cinematic catmint, influencing many film makers including Derek Jarman and Martin Scorsese. The Last Caravaggio, a recent exhibition at the National Gallery in London, showed “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula”, his last painting, dated 1610. A very dark, almost monochrome piece, it captures the moment the arrow […]
Probably the most beautiful art shop in Kyoto
This wasn’t the only art shop I visited but it was certainly the loveliest with an interior seemingly unchanged for over 100 years. Opened by the current owner’s grandfather Tsukio Fujimoto in 1863, this small shop specialises in everything required for Nihonga painting: brushes, accessories and traditionally made pigments, all in wooden cabinets and drawers. […]
Irie Taikichi’s home in Nara, Japan
Crowds make me edgy so I avoid them as much as possible. This is an issue when visiting world-famous sights; I endure the hordes but struggle after an hour or so. Imagine my joy then when coming upon this beautiful little museum down an almost deserted side street after the crowded Tōdai-ji Daibutsuden in Nara, […]
The Meddling Fiend by Nicola Turner
It’s the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy where you can see one of the most interesting pieces for free in the Annenberg Courtyard, just off Piccadilly. Sculptor Nicola Turner has created “The Meddling Fiend” after studying works by Joshua Reynolds, the Academy’s first President whose statue stands at the entrance. Made of a range […]
Fathi Hassan: I can see you smiling Fatma at Richard Saltoun Gallery
This was Fathi Hassan‘s first solo show at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London and is dedicated to his mother. Hassan was born in Egypt in 1957 to Nubian and Egyptian parents. The family had been forced to leave their home due to the building of the Aswan Dam in 1952. Now based in Edinburgh, his […]