The annual RA Summer exhibition kicks off at Burlington House next week with a whole host of new and established talent from the art world. Bridgeman Copyright Artist and Keeper of the Royal Academy, Eileen Cooper along with Bill Jacklin, are in charge of coordinating the largest open submission exhibition in the […]
A new exhibition, Constable and Brighton, curated by artist Peter Harrap at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (8th April to 8th October 2017) explores John Constable’s time in Brighton between 1824 to 1828 through his paintings – with an accompanying book published by Scala. In October 2010 I left London with my partner […]
One of the beautiful things about the invention of the camera is the preservation of fleeting, real moments on film, which have provided us with a richer understanding of the past 100 years: its movements, its people and their achievements. Fine art has played a vital role in shaping history […]
The late, great, Sir Sidney Nolan, one of Australia’s most prominent artists, marks several anniversaries in 2017. This year sees both the centenary year of the artist’s birth and the 25th anniversary of his death. To celebrate the life of the internationally acclaimed artist, immerse yourself in Nolan’s Australia, through the […]
“I am fascinated by the movement of people in New York and it’s that flux of energy that I paint about.” Celebrated artist Bill Jacklin RA is the subject of shows at the Marlborough Fine Art : Bill Jacklin: Paintings from 1986 to 2016 (8 February 2017- 4 March […]
There is something incredibly intimate about looking into someone’s sketchbooks, a raw, naked exposure into the mind of an individual. This was the feeling that I had when I was invited to the National Portrait Gallery for a private viewing (and breakfast) at the Lucian Freud sketchbook exhibition, and I loved it. […]
Lucian Freud’s moving paintings of his second wife are currently on show at Ordovas, London (until 1st August 2015). ‘Girl – Lucian Freud’ presents one of Freud’s most famous portraits in a completely new light: by displaying the woman in the painting alongside her actual image through archival photography. The […]
Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) is one of the most well-known and influential painters of the 20th century, yet in spite of his fame, he remained an intensely private figure. David Dawson, also an artist, met Freud in 1990 and worked as his assistant for the next 20 years, photographing the artist in every […]
One of the UK’s most successful contemporary artists, we look at the rise and rise of this extraordinary painter and printmaker. Originally trained as a stonemason, Tom Hammick is an example of a true polymath. A successful painter as well as a master printer, his training at Camberwell College of […]
The difficulty with asking the question as to music’s influence on an artist is that a satisfactory answer is rarely achieved. At first the two seem at odds with one another; art has no problem ‘representing’ its subject but struggles to inject tangible emotion, while music’s conflict is the polar […]
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