Category: Painting
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Major exhibitions in London: On now or coming soon….
Royal Academy of Arts Rose WylieUntil 19/4 Tate Modern Nigerian ModernismUntil 10/5 Theatre PicassoUntil 12/4 Tracey Emin: A Second LifeUntil 31/8 Tate Britain Turner and ConstableUntil 12/4 Hurvin Anderson 26/3 – 23/8 National Gallery Wright of Derby: From the ShadowsUntil 10/5 National Portrait Gallery Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting12/2-4/5 Courtauld Gallery Seurat and the Sea13/2-17/5…
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Open calls and competitions for artists
Updated on: 10.3.26 (Scroll down for the list of open calls) Being part of an exhibition where your work has been selected by judges, hung nicely, and lit on a crisp gallery wall can feel very special. It’s a chance to get your work noticed, meet other artists, take some nice photos to share on…
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Limited Print Run: Gently Out Of Time (2nd Edition)
AI version of front cover After five years, I’ve finally finished making my photobook, ‘Gently Out Of Time’. The book arrived as a result of revisiting and rearranging more than twenty years of photographs stored on my phone and laptop. It’s a record of the recurring visual motifs and subjects that catch my eye every…
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Memory
Memory is a strange thing isn’t it? Back in November I painted this tree, from a photograph I had taken at 9.20am on Thursday 12th December 2013. When I was painting it, I thought I was painting the tree I used to walk past on the way to the primary school my children went to…
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Spring
I recently purchased a few books from the Tate Shop sale. One of them was this nice little collection of artworks on the theme of Spring. It’s divided into six sections: Into the Landscape, In the Garden, Agriculture, Rebirth, Blossoms and Blooms, and Uprising. If you were to make an artwork based on one of…
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Showing distance in landscape painting
In class today, we were discussing ways of showing distance in landscape painting. To some extent, the same also applies to portraiture (get that tip of the nose coming forward), and still life. Composing a scene using perspective, and having foreground objects overlapping the ones behind is a good start, but also using warm, intense…
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2026 Newsletters so far….
I send out email newsletters each week during term time, sharing some of the creative things I come across day to day in my world of art and art education. You can read each of them here soon after they’re sent, but if you’d like to receive them hot off the press each week to…
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Six Etchings in the Attic
I started a short course in etching this week. It was strange being a student again after all these years of teaching. I haven’t etched for thirty years and have forgotten all the technicalities, which isn’t great when some of the process involves dipping zinc plates into acid! I had a search in my attic…
