Part 2 is all about ceramics, all very different. Elizabeth Renton showed mid-Century style cups and jugs with appealing tactile finishes and soft glazes. Jin Eui Kim, already featured in a previous post, continues his optical explorations using 18 shades of colour. In stark contrast to both of them, Judith Davies showed strangely mesmeric “Touchstones” with the effect of […]
Made London at Mary Ward House – part 2 of 2
Made London at Mary Ward House – part 1 of 2
I’m used to visiting Made London in the autumn but this year Tutton & Young organised a spring fair at a different venue, the Arts & Crafts building of Mary Ward House. I’d never visited this light-filled place with rich green tiled fireplaces so was delighted to explore. Made’s selection of makers is always worth investigating […]
Rebecca Jewell at Rebecca Hossack Gallery
Trained first as an anthropologist, artist Rebecca Jewell spent one of the most formative years of her life in Papua New Guinea in 1982. Her work is based on printed bird feathers with the most recent exhibition, Migrating Artefacts, at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. the new work integrates the feathers with structures from Oceana as well as […]
The Other Art Fair
Familiar artists from the increasing group of regular exhibitors included Benjamin Parker showing new gilded fish pieces (too difficult to photograph behind glass so here’s a photo of older work), Rod McIntosh with large pieces including tondi/tondos whichever plural you prefer to use for tondo , a round art piece over 60cm diameter. (the photo below is of work […]
The quintessentially Spring phenomenon of the bluebell wood
Ah! You can always tell that Spring is well underway with a visit to a bluebell wood. I was a little early this year but the experience wasn’t diminished and the scent heavenly. The English bluebell is under threat from the larger, less delicate Spanish version which has overrun London including my garden. I can’t even […]
Jessica Carlisle Gallery – The Missing: Rebuilding the Past
This exhibition held at the recently opened Jessica Carlisle Gallery presents a variety of artistic responses to the acts of iconoclasm carried out by so-called Islamic State ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Curator Erin Thompson, Professor of Art Crime at the City University of New York, has gathered a collection of artists and scholars to […]