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“It’s about nothing and everything” said John Virtue in his interview , “I never create for an audience”, “my work respo...
24/01/2025

“It’s about nothing and everything” said John Virtue in his interview , “I never create for an audience”, “my work responds to my life in linear form” and “if a painting is finished, it’s dead”. Wonderful!

I really enjoyed talking with and learning about her latest work, on show today through to Sunday , curated by . A set...
24/01/2025

I really enjoyed talking with and learning about her latest work, on show today through to Sunday , curated by . A set of drawings and an amazingly tactile (and gently swaying) sculpture that set me immediately referencing Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Rauschenberg. Abigail is interested in letting her mind run free and seeing what comes out. The drawings were made in France, whilst going through a worrying time of family illness and uncertainty. A background of reconsidering relationships and the possibility of loss. Informed by a sense of place, but more by the release of thought during that time of endurance. My reading of the work was informed by Abigail’s story, yet I can conjure up my own meanings too, and probably not a million miles away from Abigail’s experience because what makes us human is our shared sense of the profound.

When in Bristol it would be churlish not to visit the Royal West of England Academy, particularly when it has its 171st ...
26/10/2024

When in Bristol it would be churlish not to visit the Royal West of England Academy, particularly when it has its 171st Annual Open Exhibition on. Like the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition in London, the RWA selects from thousands of submissions of artwork to stage this annual exhibition. The chosen artworks are exhibited alongside work by the current 150 Academicians and a special invited artist who, for this year, is Rana Begum RA, whose minimalist work I really like.

As with the RA Summer show, the RWA Open is a plethora of artworks covering the walls in many different media and sizes. Whilst difficult to concentrate on any one work in particular, because there are so many and few relationships between them, it is fun to spot work by friends and others that I have come across briefly before, and see where their work is heading. Nice work too in the Candidates Room by seven artists who are currently hoping to be elected as future Academicians. My money is on , and

Here’s my list of artists from this year’s exhibition that are also worth following:












Excited to hear that Silvia Lerin’s gigantic mural, Rough Gemstones, commissioned by Luton (Business Improvement Distric...
17/10/2024

Excited to hear that Silvia Lerin’s gigantic mural, Rough Gemstones, commissioned by Luton (Business Improvement District) is to be unveiled on 23rd October. Sadly I won’t be there for the unveiling, but I will be visiting soon after. Love Silvia’s work and look forward to seeing how this remains true to her own practice as well as satisfying the town council and its 225,226 residents.

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The little gems of with lunch and new friends. It beats going to Frieze! Thanks for your welcome and generosity.
12/10/2024

The little gems of with lunch and new friends. It beats going to Frieze! Thanks for your welcome and generosity.

How wonderful to meet Matthew Collings surrounded by his paintings and drawings. Admired for many years for his art crit...
28/09/2024

How wonderful to meet Matthew Collings surrounded by his paintings and drawings. Admired for many years for his art criticism, writing and broadcasting, he is also a very accomplished artist. His paintings and drawings give insight to his mind and thoughts about the art world, politics and beliefs. As with his writing they show a brilliant level of perception with sprinklings of humour and melancholy thrown in to delight and provide food for a lifetime of contemplation.

The artist and sculptor, James Rogers, has many ideas about what informs his work. One thought that he obsesses over is...
29/06/2024

The artist and sculptor, James Rogers, has many ideas about what informs his work. One thought that he obsesses over is the human body and its relationship to both nature and machine. The neck, he speculates is like a circuit breaker and we bow our heads to cut off the pain of emotions between our brain and our body, “there were many with bowed heads at the foot of the crucifixion”, he points out. Yesterday I found myself with one of his bronze sculptures, standing centre point in the beautiful Garrison Chapel in Chelsea (the Grade-II listed chapel was originally designed for the Chelsea Barracks over 150 years ago but now deconsecrated and refurbished to make a beautiful public space). Aptly, James’s sculpture was paired with one of Craigie Aitchison’s colourful, yet somber, paintings of the Crucifixion and my imagination was fired by the sculpture, the painting and the place.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Read my studio interview with Katherine Jones RA now available on my website (link in bio).“We talked, not...
15/05/2024

ANNOUNCEMENT: Read my studio interview with Katherine Jones RA now available on my website (link in bio).

“We talked, not only about Katherine’s inspirations, influences, roots and progress, but also about the graft, the discipline, the aloneness and the huge amount of time that goes into pursuing a creative career. Plus the lows, the doubts, the insecurities and the cycle of emotions that ride alongside the absolute certainty that this is what she must do. In fact, we found so much to talk about that four hours flew past until we realised we were sitting in fading daylight…”

The most delightful Katherine Jones RA. The Studio Interview coming soon…
18/04/2024

The most delightful Katherine Jones RA. The Studio Interview coming soon…

Flemish paintings that charmed me in the many rooms of the MSK, GhentMarguerite Putsage, Sleeping Woman, seen from behin...
27/03/2024

Flemish paintings that charmed me in the many rooms of the MSK, Ghent

Marguerite Putsage, Sleeping Woman, seen from behind, 1937 (or earlier), pastel on paper

Leon De Smet, Interior or A Loving Couple, 1911, oil on canvas

Jheronimus Bosch, Saint Jerome, c.1485-95, oil on panel

Jenny Montigny, My Window, c.1910, oil on canvas

Valerius De Saedeleer, Farm in the Snow, 1907, oil on canvas

Théo Van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Marguerite Van Mons, 1886, oil on canvas

Annie Morris’ stacked forms evoke a sense of tension (strength and fragility, joy and grief, precarity and resilience). ...
14/03/2024

Annie Morris’ stacked forms evoke a sense of tension (strength and fragility, joy and grief, precarity and resilience). At some point in our lives we all have these feelings (Morris experienced a personal tragedy around 10 years ago) yet the vibrant and rich colours are full of childlike fun, joy and optimism and are more about the periods of rebuilding and recovery, than the tragedy. While her practice spans drawing to textiles, Morris has become best well known for her Stacks. These totems begin with a drawing on paper before being later translated, intuitively, into pigment and sand on plaster with a core of foam. Stack 9, Copper Blue (2018), 2m high, was sold by a private collector at Christie’s last week (pictured here) for over £300k and a record for the artist. Before being picked up by Timothy Taylor Gallery in 2019, she was known as Idris Khan’s other half. Go girl!

For International Women’s Day (8 March) I propose to highlight the fab painter, Caroline Walker. By looking at her pain...
08/03/2024

For International Women’s Day (8 March) I propose to highlight the fab painter, Caroline Walker. By looking at her paintings we become voyeurs on the everyday moments of women’s lives. The female gaze upon the female world.

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