From the studio
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Moving Pictures
Read more: Moving PicturesI’ve started listening to the excellent BBC Radio 4 series, ‘Moving Pictures’. During each episode, experts talk about one artwork, in detail, for thirty minutes. They also provide you with a link to a high resolution image of the artwork for you to look at whilst they describe it. I had a thought though; how…
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Fleeting Moments
Read more: Fleeting MomentsThe subject matter for my paintings over the past few years has been the photographs on my phone storage. I use them to revisit and reconnect with some of the fleeting moments I’ve snapshotted for some reason or another. Our photo-streams have become a sort of visual DNA of our lives and what makes us…
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30 minutes in Tate Modern
Read more: 30 minutes in Tate ModernLast Saturday, as I usually do when dropping off or pick up work from the Bankside Gallery, I popped into Tate Modern next door to take in a few rooms of the free art available. This time I went to the display; ‘In the Studio’, where there’s a cracking collection of early twentieth century European…
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Gallery hopping in Kent
Read more: Gallery hopping in KentFirst stop, Linden Hall Studio in Deal for a game of spot the artist. How many can you spot?: Royal Watercolour Society friends:John CrossleyCharles WilliamsLucy MarksDavid WisemanMeChloe FremantleLottie ColeJane Lewis Studio Fridays mentees (and friends):Neeta Popat KatariaDiana StanMargaret Crutchley Second stop, Turner Contemporary in Margate to see Anya Gallaccio‘s ever changing, growing, rotting and melting…
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Major gallery exhibitions opening soon in London
Read more: Major gallery exhibitions opening soon in LondonRoyal Academy of ArtsBrazil! Brazil! The birth of Modernism28/1 – 21/4 Tate ModernLeigh Bowery!27/2 – 31/8 Tate BritainEd Atkins2/4 – 31/8 National GallerySiena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 – 13508/3 – 22/6 Jose Maria Velasco: A View of Mexico29/ – 17/8 Courtauld GalleryGoya to Impressionism. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection14.2 – 26/5 National Portrait…
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W3 Spring term lesson: Bacon
Read more: W3 Spring term lesson: BaconI’ve just delivered two painting classes in the studio, inspired by the Francis Bacon triptych portraits I saw recently at the National Portrait Gallery. I’ve included some photographs from the exhibition below, followed by a few links to Bacon and Soho things I’ve enjoyed watching in the past few days and finally, some of the…
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W2 Spring term lesson: Horizons and Near and Far
Read more: W2 Spring term lesson: Horizons and Near and FarExamples of artists work Also see Saatchi Art: Horizons Horizons in the studio
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W1 Spring term lesson: Hatching
Read more: W1 Spring term lesson: HatchingWednesday 8th Janbuary 2025Morning and afternoon groups. Part 1:Having looked at six works by artists who had drawn using hatching techniques (bottom of page), students were asked to sketch a section of each, using a variety of pens and pencils. They were given just 6 minutes to investigate the technique used in each image. Part…
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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Read more: Pamela Phatsimo SunstrumCurve Gallery, Barbican CentreEnds Sunday 5th JanuaryVideo ‘In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.’
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Monet and London. Views from the Thames
Read more: Monet and London. Views from the ThamesCourtauld GalleryUntil Janaury 19thSold out but click here for a virtual tour With general admission tickets no longer available to see Monet’s paintings of the Thames at the Courtauld Gallery, I decided to sign up for a years membership to be able to see it. And I’m glad I did. It’s a exhibition of 21…
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