Author: Paul Regan

Turner Prize 2024

Who would be your winner of this year’s Turner Prize? Tate BritainUntil 16th February 2025Winner announced on 3rd December 2024. Pio Abad Born and raised in the Philippines, Abad was selected for this year’s Turner Prize for his exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, where he responded to artefacts in the collection by adding…
Two gallery visits and a lot of thinking about collage.

Walking around the Whitechapel Gallery last Thursday evening, I was trying to think if there had ever been a time when I had left an exhibition there, feeling unfulfilled. I don’t think there has been. The curators just seem to always put on a good show. I think this is the case for the Barbican…
Understanding Abstract Art

The BBC have produced a number of programmes in the past to help us understand how to engage and think about abstract painting. Here are some Youtube links to two series, Rules of Abstraction and Abstract Artists In Their Own Words. Rules of Abstraction (Approx 6 x15 mins): Abstract Artists In Their Own Words (approx…
Where to see art for free

If you live in or around London, you have access to regularly changing blockbuster art exhibitions on your doorstep. Today, Monet’s paintings of the Thames have just gone on show at the Courtauld Gallery, sixty paintings by Van Gogh are showing together at the National Gallery, Michael Craig Martin has a large solo show at…
News from the studio (27.09.24)

Newsletter #4 of the autumn term 2024. Sign up to receive all newsletters via email. I hope you have had a good week. It’s been a great week for artists like Peter Brown who like to paint the rain! I managed to finish those watercolours I mentioned last week, in time for the ‘220 Years of the Royal…
Four new paintings

I’ve just made four new 8″x6″ watercolour paintings from past photographs for the forthcoming Royal Watercolour Society exhibition at the Bankside Gallery (4/10-2/11). Remembering and reconnecting with: At Eric’s: Before dinner at Eric’s, La Defense, Paris, 2017. Wardour Street: Leading a Street Photography workshop in 2013 Airport lounge: Waiting to return from Berlin in 2013…
News from the studio (20.9.24)

Newsletter #3 of the autumn term 2024. Sign up to receive all newsletters via email. There’s been lots of lovely late summer sun in North London this week! In the studio, I’ve continued to battle with watercolour, working towards Monday’s Royal Watercolour Society submission deadline. Hopefully I’ll be able to share the work that I’ll…
W3: Disguise

Update: Work produced in class has been added below. A large part of my painting practice involves looking through my photostream to reconnect with moments from the past. Last year, I noticed that over the years I’ve taken a lot of photographs of people covering their faces, with masks or other headgear. I started making…
W2: Cubo Futurism

Update: Work produced in class has been added below. The workshop I’ve planned for week 2 of the autumn term is titled, ‘Cubo Futurism’. It was inspired by the first room of the current Royal Academy exhibition, ‘In the eye of the storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s‘. I’d recommend going to see it if you…
Late night gallery openings

If, like me, your favourite time to be out and about in London is the evening, you might want to keep a note of these late opening times for galleries and museums. Some of the following only apply when an exhibition is on, so you’ll need to do a bit of research first by clicking…