Category: Art

A popular feature of Chichester Cathedral is a stained glass window on the north side, designed and created by the French artist Marc Chagall. The window is inspired by Psalm 150, which urges its readers to ‘let everything that hath breath praise the Lord’. Vibrant and colourful, our Chagall window encompasses aspects of the Anglican […]

David Jones Artist 1895-1974 Art for David Jones is a sacramental process – the record of interface with God. Artworks are the fragments of traces left over from this colloquy.  These residues are in exact remains and it is their very imperfections that compel artists obsessively to continue with this process of creating each day; […]

I think that by now many of my FB friends and followers of this blog may well know that I spent a week in Palm Beach this January. I was very glad to get to know the work of the Norton Museum of Art and to deliver a lecture there as part of an exhibition […]

  Christ in the House of His Parents (‘The Carpenter’s Shop’) 1849-50 Sir John Everett Millais, Bt 1829-1896 Combining rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelites constitute Britain’s first modern art movement. The exhibitionat the Tate  brings together over 150 works in different media, including painting, sculpture, photography and the applied arts, revealing […]

Hew Locke is a sculptor and contemporary British visual artist based in london. Locke uses a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography, relief, fabric, sculpture and casting, and makes extensive use of found objects and collage. Recurrent themes and imagery include visual expressions of power, trophies, globalization, movement of peoples, the creation of […]

  chagall   donkey or cow, cockerel, horse, right down to the varnish on a violin; a man who sings, a lonely bird, a dancer floating with his wife; a couple, soaked in their own springtime; the gold of the grass, the leaden sky; between them, blue flames and the vitality of dew: the blood […]

One of the exciting things about travel is the discovery of new artists – Newmans effect on this tourist was electrifying – his use of primary colours  is vibrant and fascinating. Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract […]

  Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, known as Willie, was born in St Andrews, Fife, on 8 June 1912. As a child she showed very early signs of creative ability. Determining while at school that she wanted to be an artist, she set her sights on Edinburgh College of Art where, after some dispute with her father, she […]

Clive Hicks-Jenkins was born in Newport in 1951 and educated in Theatre Studies at the Italia Conti School. He currently lives in mid Wales. His painting has been critically praised in The Independent, Modern Painters, Galleries and Art Review. Shelagh Hourahane, in Planet, has called him ‘an inspiring and masterly painter’, and Robert Macdonald described […]

  Compton Verney House  is an 18th century country mansion at Compton Verney near Kineton in Warwickshire which has been converted into the Compton Verney Art Gallery. The building is a Grade I listed house built in 1714 by Richard Verney, 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke. It was first extensively extended by George Verney, the […]

  A misericord (sometimes named mercy seat, like the Biblical object) is a small wooden shelf on the underside of a folding seat in a church, installed to provide a degree of comfort for a person who has to stand during long periods of prayer. Prayers in the early medieval church for the daily divine […]

Oriel Ynys Môn is a museum and arts centre located in Llangefni, Ynys Môn, Wales. A two-part centre, the History Gallery provides an insight into the island’s culture, history and environment. The Art Gallery has a changing programme of exhibitions, encompassing art, craft, drama, sculpture and social history. It also houses a series of permanent […]

Moore’s Figure in a Shelter 1975 finds its origins in the Helmet Head series first produced in 1939-40. By making the central figure smaller, widening and dividing the space around that figure, and even eventually removing it entirely from its’ protective armour to produce Bronze Form 1985.

Perry Green is the name of Moore’s former estate, which includes the farmhouse home of Hoglands and garden, his studios, and less formal gardens and fields containing many of his larger sculptures. The grounds also feature the Sheep Field Barn gallery with changing exhibits of his work, and the Aisled Barn with a display of […]

I wrote earlier this week about the life of Paul Gauguin following a visit to the Tate to see Gauguin: Maker of Myth ( http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/gauguin/ ) Gauguin had been a stockbroker and a Sunday painter before taking up art full-time after an economic downturn in the early 1880s, as a result of the collapse of a […]

Motivated by a visit to the Tate on Friday with my friends the Dwyers here a some reflections on the artist Gauguin – the first blog is some biography – we shall move onto his work later in the week. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France to journalist Clovis Gauguin and Alina Maria Chazal, […]

Sandra Blow (14 September 1925 – 22 August 2006)    Sandra Blow was born in London,  and studied at Saint Martins School of Art from 1941 to 1946, at the Royal Academy Schools from 1946 to 1947, and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome from 1947 to 1948. She travelled to Spain and […]