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Featured Art | Le Crete Senesi Series by Joe Tilson

Featured Art | Le Crete Senesi Series by Joe Tilson

October 2020

In Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte, the Tuscan painter’s handbook for aspiring 15th century artists, you will find the story of ‘a yellow colour called ochre’.

Featured Art | ‘Everyday saints of the city’: <em>Sambhavna</em> by Swoon

Featured Art | ‘Everyday saints of the city’: Sambhavna by Swoon

February 2020

Whether pasted on disused buildings or installed hanging from gallery ceilings, Swoon’s intimate, local portraits are a modern hagiography.

‘Pots to Give and to Hold’: Why We Love Eating from Handmade Ceramics

‘Pots to Give and to Hold’: Why We Love Eating from Handmade Ceramics

February 2020

In the 15 years we have been selling ceramics, we have always sold domestic ware: pots made to live in a home, to nourish stomach and soul.

Kill Your Darlings: Sex and Violence in Michael Rothenstein’s Prints

Kill Your Darlings: Sex and Violence in Michael Rothenstein’s Prints

February 2020

For Rothenstein, the rooster’s cock-of-the-walk braggadocio and the violent impress of cut timber became the prism for musings on predation.

Featured Art | <em>Pensive King</em> by Andrzej Kuhn

Featured Art | Pensive King by Andrzej Kuhn

February 2020

The sculptures of Andrzej Kuhn are like Sumerian votives. Capsuled within them is a wit and warm-heartedness that was the soul of all he made.

Featured Art | The Dance of Light: <em>Reflections</em> by Brendan Neiland

Featured Art | The Dance of Light: Reflections by Brendan Neiland

July 2018

In paintings like ‘Reflections’, Brendan Neiland reveals the dance of light that plays out daily on the glass towers and cars that dominate our landscape.

Featured Art | Labyrinth <em>Caerdroia</em>, Wooden Construction by Joe Tilson

Featured Art | Labyrinth Caerdroia, Wooden Construction by Joe Tilson

July 2018

With its rich conflation of mythological resonances, Joe Tilson’s cryptic wooden ‘Caerdroia’ labyrinth offers the viewer little by way of illumination.

Featured Art | Snapshots of the City: Screenprints by Gerd Winner

Featured Art | Snapshots of the City: Screenprints by Gerd Winner

July 2018

Gerd Winner’s photographic screenprint arrangements point to a world of oblique signs and symbols embedded within our everyday environment.

Featured Art | ‘The Sower’, Oil Painting by Derrick Greaves

Featured Art | ‘The Sower’, Oil Painting by Derrick Greaves

June 2018

With hard edge and flat colour, ‘The Sower’ evidences Greaves at a critical stage in his career, abandoning that which had brought him acclaim.

Featured Art | ‘After Chardin’, Artist’s Proof Etching by Lucian Freud

Featured Art | ‘After Chardin’, Artist’s Proof Etching by Lucian Freud

June 2018

The words used to describe the paintings of Chardin – gentle, tender, graceful – are not often applied to Lucian Freud’s unflinching oils and etchings.

Featured Art | ‘Zita’, Venetian Window Construction by Joe Tilson

Featured Art | ‘Zita’, Venetian Window Construction by Joe Tilson

June 2018

Produced in 2010, ‘Zita’ is one of a recent series of window constructions centred around Venice, where Joe Tilson has found inspiration for over forty years.

Featured Ceramics | The Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic: Yohen Dish by Ken Matsuzaki

Featured Ceramics | The Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic: Yohen Dish by Ken Matsuzaki

May 2018

Like wabi-sabi, Ken Matsuzaki’s work loses something in the analysis: it occupies the realm of the inexpressible, where chemistry remains alchemy.

Featured Art | ‘Moses and the Tablets’: Marc Chagall and the Art of the Poster

Featured Art | ‘Moses and the Tablets’: Marc Chagall and the Art of the Poster

May 2018

First taking on the challenge of designing his own exhibition posters in his mid-sixties, Chagall found in lithography a rejuvenating lease of life.

Featured Art | Frank Dobson: London Pride

Featured Art | Frank Dobson: London Pride

May 2018

Of the Festival of Britain’s many art installations, Frank Dobson’s monumental sculpture ‘London Pride’ was perhaps its most enduring.

Featured Art | A Tuscan Reverie: Still Life Paintings by Janet Stayton

Featured Art | A Tuscan Reverie: Still Life Paintings by Janet Stayton

March 2018

The broad, rich still life paintings of Janet Stayton are a present-day paean to the Mediterranean and the Tuscan town of Pietrasanta.

Featured Ceramics | Slipware Press-Mould Dishes by Doug Fitch

Featured Ceramics | Slipware Press-Mould Dishes by Doug Fitch

February 2018

In these dishes, produced with Michael Cardew’s old press moulds, Doug Fitch distills an intimate bond with the local landscape with a modern touch.

Featured Art | ‘Fountain at the Spaais’ by Anthony Gross

Featured Art | ‘Fountain at the Spaais’ by Anthony Gross

February 2018

Though it demonstrates skill and sophistication in its every stroke of paint, Anthony Gross was just twenty-two years old when he made Fountain at the Spaiis.

Featured Ceramics | Large Square Platters by Jean-Nicolas Gérard

Featured Ceramics | Large Square Platters by Jean-Nicolas Gérard

January 2018

These huge square dishes, with rumpled, up-turned edges, become vineyards or lavender fields in miniature: sgraffito scars mimic row upon row of grape vines.

Featured Art | Miniature Figure and Sitting Woman by Lynn Chadwick

Featured Art | Miniature Figure and Sitting Woman by Lynn Chadwick

January 2018

These two tremendously rare maquettes characterise a major recurring theme in Chadwick’s sculpture of the human figure combining with pure form.

Featured Art | Life Drawings from the Académie Julian

Featured Art | Life Drawings from the Académie Julian

January 2018

Established in 1867, the famed Académie Julian developed a reputation for its outstanding technical instruction and an impressive list of artist alumni.

Featured Art | ‘London Types’ Woodcuts by William Nicholson

Featured Art | ‘London Types’ Woodcuts by William Nicholson

December 2017

Though they were published over a century ago, there is something irrefutably modern about William Nicholson’s ‘London Types’ woodcuts.

Featured Art | ‘The Schoolroom’ Lithograph by Vanessa Bell

Featured Art | ‘The Schoolroom’ Lithograph by Vanessa Bell

December 2017

In Vanessa Bell’s ‘The Schoolroom’, all is pattern: from the looping wallpaper to the softly mottled armchair, decoration and design abounds.

Featured Art | Portrait Bust of Lady Dorothea Cooper by Frank Dobson

Featured Art | Portrait Bust of Lady Dorothea Cooper by Frank Dobson

December 2017

Frank Dobson’s remarkable portrait of Lady Dorothea Cooper, one of the sculptor’s most successful commissions, saw its share of bad luck.

Featured Art | Mel Gooding talks Ceri Richards’ ‘Peu à Peu Sortant de la Brume’

Featured Art | Mel Gooding talks Ceri Richards’ ‘Peu à Peu Sortant de la Brume’

October 2017

Ceri Richards expert Mel Gooding talks us through the influences behind ‘Peu à Peu Sortant de la Brume’.

Featured Ceramics | Giant Korean ‘Onggi’ Pots by Kang-hyo Lee

Featured Ceramics | Giant Korean ‘Onggi’ Pots by Kang-hyo Lee

September 2017

In the swirling surface of Kang-hyo’s Onggi, the musical tempest thunders on. Vigorous and meditative, they offer nourishment for the soul.

Featured Art | ‘Lovers’ Dreamboat’ Oil Painting by Alan Davie

Featured Art | ‘Lovers’ Dreamboat’ Oil Painting by Alan Davie

July 2017

By the early 1970s, when ‘Lovers’ Dreamboat’ was produced, Scottish shaman-artist Alan Davie had developed a powerful symbolic vocabulary.

Featured Art | ‘Study for Folded Hills’ by Graham Sutherland

Featured Art | ‘Study for Folded Hills’ by Graham Sutherland

July 2017

In ‘Study for Folded Hills’ Sutherland combines the caustic heat of his wartime sketches with the ancient, teeming hillsides of Pembrokeshire.

Featured Art | ‘Blue Nude’ Screenprint by William Scott

Featured Art | ‘Blue Nude’ Screenprint by William Scott

May 2017

In its simplicity, ‘Blue Nude’ is an image where the smallest details enrich, where the line is palpable and the eye made to feel the paper.

Featured Art | Edinburgh Weavers Textile Panels by Scottie Wilson

Featured Art | Edinburgh Weavers Textile Panels by Scottie Wilson

May 2017

These printed satin designs, one of many textile collaborations with the distinguished Edinburgh Weavers, reveal Wilson’s fondness for line.

Featured Art | ‘A Party’, Oil Painting by Gwyneth Johnstone

Featured Art | ‘A Party’, Oil Painting by Gwyneth Johnstone

April 2017

In ‘A Party’, the unique power of Gwyneth Johnstone’s painterly voice resonates through each musical blue, each pop of vermillion red.

Featured Art | Original Watercolour and Oil Paintings by Anthony Gross

Featured Art | Original Watercolour and Oil Paintings by Anthony Gross

April 2017

From the very early years of Gross’ career translucent watercolour landscapes and rich, detailed oil paintings were a major preoccupation.

Featured Ceramics | Tall Wood-Fired Bottles by Nic Collins

Featured Ceramics | Tall Wood-Fired Bottles by Nic Collins

April 2017

The more one looks at Collins’ bottles, from blistering patches of scarlet to glistening shino glazes, the more of their story they share.

Featured Art | ‘Child’s Wonderment’ Screenprint by Carel Weight

Featured Art | ‘Child’s Wonderment’ Screenprint by Carel Weight

April 2017

Ambiguity was the essence of the work of Carel Weight, where ostensibly ordinary scenes were made alternately strange, serene, and sinister.

Featured Ceramics | Set of 80 Guinomi by Potter Phil Rogers

Featured Ceramics | Set of 80 Guinomi by Potter Phil Rogers

March 2017

Three different kilns; three very different firings; every 80 guinomi set potter Phil Rogers puts together is truly a labour of pottery love.

Featured Art | Acrylic and Watercolour Paintings by Harvey Daniels

Featured Art | Acrylic and Watercolour Paintings by Harvey Daniels

January 2017

From every luminescent yellow to their midnight blues, Harvey Daniel’s paintings reaffirm the strength of optimistic art in a cynical world.

Featured Art | Bronze Bust of Augustus John by Jacob Epstein

Featured Art | Bronze Bust of Augustus John by Jacob Epstein

January 2017

With hair swept back like the mane of a lion, Epstein’s heroic bust of the devilishly charismatic Augustus John captured his ragged likeness.

Featured Art | Screenprint Portraits by Julian Opie

Featured Art | Screenprint Portraits by Julian Opie

December 2016

There are few places where Julian Opie’s art has not been: giant billboards; LED screens in airport waiting lounges; CD covers; road signs.

Featured Art | ‘Lion Hunt’ Oil Painting by Ceri Richards

Featured Art | ‘Lion Hunt’ Oil Painting by Ceri Richards

November 2016

In Ceri Richards’ ‘Lion Hunt’ paintings, the major theme of his later work – the violent beauty of the natural world – was brought into sharp focus.

Featured Ceramics | Square Bottles by Anne Mette Hjortshøj

Featured Ceramics | Square Bottles by Anne Mette Hjortshøj

November 2016

White slip landscapes of pillowy snow; dappled salt-glaze frostings on claret red fields; each square bottle by Anne Mette Hjortshøj becomes a potter’s canvas.

Featured Art | ‘Candle Hat’, Oil Painting by Roderic Barrett

Featured Art | ‘Candle Hat’, Oil Painting by Roderic Barrett

October 2016

Barrett’s tender ‘Candle Hat’, produced when the artist was at the peak of his powers, epitomises the warmth and humanity at the heart of his work.

Featured Art | John Piper ‘Coventry Cathedral’ Anniversary Screen Prints

Featured Art | John Piper ‘Coventry Cathedral’ Anniversary Screen Prints

October 2016

Steeped in historical context, the Goldmark Gallery’s Coventry Cathedral screen prints remind us of John Piper’s supreme ability as an architectural artist.

Featured Art | Prints from the Contemporary Lithographs Ltd. Series

Featured Art | Prints from the Contemporary Lithographs Ltd. Series

October 2016

With prints by the crème-de-la-crème of British artists, Contemporary Lithographs is one of the most celebrated 20th century art enterprises.

Featured Art | ‘Rose, Black and White’, Oil Painting by Derrick Greaves

Featured Art | ‘Rose, Black and White’, Oil Painting by Derrick Greaves

October 2016

Deftly drawn and delicately composed, Derrick Greaves’ sublime ‘Rose’ heralded major change in the artist’s later development.

Featured Art | ‘The River’, Oil Painting by Edward Middleditch

Featured Art | ‘The River’, Oil Painting by Edward Middleditch

October 2016

Edward Middleditch’s ‘The River’ reveals the artist for what he truly was: an exceptional and undervalued painter dedicated wholly to nature.

Featured Art | ‘Quiberon Bay’, Collage by John Piper

Featured Art | ‘Quiberon Bay’, Collage by John Piper

October 2016

John Piper’s strange and strikingly bold ‘Quiberon Bay’ collage saw the artist return in full force to the abstraction of 30 years previous.

Featured Art | ‘Tottenham Court Road Study’ by Eduardo Paolozzi

Featured Art | ‘Tottenham Court Road Study’ by Eduardo Paolozzi

October 2016

With its sprawling pipes and wires and blueprint layouts, Paolozzi’s ‘Tottenham Court Road Study’ represents an essential historic relic.

Featured Ceramics | Moon Jars by Kang-hyo Lee

Featured Ceramics | Moon Jars by Kang-hyo Lee

October 2016

Both quiet and vital, powerful and with presence, Kang-hyo Lee’s moon jars are the intimate results of his search for ‘a beautiful life.’

Featured Art | ‘Screen’, Watercolour and Gouache by John Tunnard

Featured Art | ‘Screen’, Watercolour and Gouache by John Tunnard

October 2016

Completed in 1962, John Tunnard’s mysterious ‘Screen’ reveals a host of new influences that would inform the artist’s final works throughout the 1960s.

Featured Art | ‘Canal Scene’, Oil Painting by Alistair Grant

Featured Art | ‘Canal Scene’, Oil Painting by Alistair Grant

October 2016

With its swirling blue sky and pink peeling buildings, Alistair Grant’s ‘Vienna’ brings the modern-day Viennese canals to life with painterly gusto.

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