Category: Painting

Fleeting Moments

The 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…
30 minutes in Tate Modern

Last 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…
Gallery hopping in Kent

First 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…
Major gallery exhibitions opening soon in London

Royal 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…
W3 Spring term lesson: Bacon

I’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…
W2 Spring term lesson: Horizons and Near and Far

Examples of artists work Also see Saatchi Art: Horizons Horizons in the studio
W1 Spring term lesson: Hatching

Wednesday 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…
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

Curve 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.’
Monet and London. Views from the Thames

Courtauld 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…
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers

Van Gogh: Poets and LoversNational Gallery, LondonUntil January 19th A big exhibition of bright, colourful paintings, oozing with thick brush marks of paint, as fresh as if they had just been applied, all displayed on a different coloured wall in each room, juxtaposed with well considered quotes. ‘The careful planning behind Van Gogh’s art extended…