Tim Marlow is both an experienced art historian, broadcaster, former Director with the renowned London art gallery, the White Cube (and now Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London). Back in 2014, he takes 6 minutes to give his advice on UK artists wanting to ‘make it’ – and how a galleryContinue reading “How galleries help artists – Tim Marlow”
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Artist: Faith Ringgold
“You can’t wait for someone to say who you are, you need to write it and paint it and DO it” – Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold, artist/writer has a retrospective touring exhibition currently at the Serpentine Gallery in London right now – but ’twas not ever thus. When she began taking her paintings to galleriesContinue reading “Artist: Faith Ringgold”
ARTIST TALK: Libby Scott
Review of contemporary Scottish landscape painter Libby Scott’s artist talk during exhibition at Birch Tree Gallery in Edinburgh.
From Sketch to linocut: Eric Gaskell
One of my favourite linocut artists, Eric Gaskell, has generously made a video of his process in sketching landscape through to the final print from linocut.
Alexandra Kingswell: Quilting and Maths
Alexandra Kingswell mixes Fibonacci sequence, Pi and vibrant colours in ways which make your eyes and spirit sing. Her infectiously joyous colours and patterns are derived from mathematical equations – do you know anyone else who enthuses about the pattern formed at “some 544 decimal places into Pi..? Her website is a treat of inspirationContinue reading “Alexandra Kingswell: Quilting and Maths”
Do artists change how we look at life?
Eugene Peterson, spiritual thinker and writer, gives one interesting example of how an artist changed what he saw, in one part of his life. Television vs Homemade vs Fine Art This short clip made me wonder about his comment that artists help us see afresh by us actively seeking them, whereas television presents andContinue reading “Do artists change how we look at life?”
Cross-stitch hip-hop: Emma McKee
Yes, way. Cross-stitch and hip-hop do meet. Here.
start small – Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter works across a wide variety of textures and formats: painting over photographs, painting from photographs but blurring, mirrors, versions of a major Titian painting…… where do you even begin? On what basis do you choose your format? I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven’t done anythingContinue reading “start small – Gerhard Richter”
Featured Artist: Lori Reed
Lori Reed shows collage works and techniques
Two Painters, one collage
Collaborating on the same collage 2 artists: Rick and Brenda Beerhorst. Musings on failure and big city.
