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LATEST ARTICLES ( 165 )

• Reverie

  A while ago, I posted this on my other blog. *** In this book from The Tate about the artist Sir Terry Frost, I found this: "To look at a painting which gives... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Art Outside the 'mainstream' Markets

  Writing on the Fine Art Views blog, artist and critic has this to say: We must show that there is more than one avenue toward success in art. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Abstract Art - a Personal Response

  

  Without any formal art education, I tend to come on new artists by chance or recommendation or perhaps from the media. Accordingly my knowledge of art and... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Abstract Landscape - an Oxymoron?

  

  Howard Hodgkin is on record as saying that he has never painted an abstract in his life. This may seem surprising when when one looks at his work, but is... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Blogging

  I haven't posted in a while, a problem with my foot has meant I haven't been in the studio much and so have little of my own work to talk about. For some... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, TECH

• Kinstugi - the Art of Repair

  In fifteenth century Japan, a shogun damaged a precious Chinese bowl, causing cracks to splinter across the small vessel. Fearful of the cracks growing, the... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Red Cockatoo - Poem by Po Chu-i

  I could equally have put this in my other blog, given the content, but I've decided to post it here. I can't remember when I came on Arthur Waley's... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Variations on a Theme by Howard Hodgkin

  

  A little while ago I posted on the subject of 'cultural appropriation' (Pocahotties, Picasso and the Elgin Marbles). That post referred mostly to musical themes... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Music for Sundays - Brass Band Music

  This selection is something very specific to English music - even more specifically to the North of England. I don't know when I first heard a brass band;... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Music for Valentine's Day

  It's St Valentine's Day, so let's have some Romance! Chris de Burgh seems to be best known for 'Lady in Red', allegedly the song most sung by drunken maudlin me... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Whitney Houston

  I've put back the Music for Sunday post I had planned. Listen instead to Whitney Houston at her peak, displaying her fantastic vocal range. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Small Prints

  

  I've been working on some small monotypes over the past few weeks. I started making these as a quick way to try out palettes and different ways of mark-making o... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Pocahotties, Picasso and the Elgin Marbles

  Have you come across 'pocahotties'? I hadn’t either until a few weeks ago. It is apparently the term used for young women who dress up in 'Red Indian' outfits i... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Music for Sunday (plus 2) - the Female Voice

  Running late this week, so here is a delayed, 'Music for Sunday'. I have always like the female voice in music. I'm particuarly fond of the pure sound of the... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Panorama - Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern

  

  I went to Tate Modern in London a few weeks ago to see Panorama - works by Gerhard Richter (now closed). As I said in an earlier post, I was a little... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Music for Sunday - Duke Ellington

  I discovered the music of Duke Ellington when I was about 12 or 13, so probably around 1959. I've loved his work ever since; all of it from the 1920s till he... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In the Desert

  I didn't do any printmaking or painting over the Christmas holiday period. This holiday for me has always been about relaxing with family, reading lots of... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Music for Sunday

  I'm going to try and do a regular(ish) post on Sundays about music, or at least the music I like to listen to. Many years ago, while still at school I think,... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Etsy and Art

  There has been a discussion going on for a while on Etsy they could can improve its coverage of art. The basic premise is that when Etsy refers to art it ignore... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern

  Last week I went to the Gerhard Richter show at Tate Modern in London. To say I enjoyed it would not be entirely accurate, but it was thoroughly thought... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE