Artist Rooms to return
February 27, 2010 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
The widely-praised Artist Rooms has announced its 2010 national tour, taking iconic works by contemporary artists to 21 British museums and galleries, from Llandudno to Fort William. Apart from Edinburgh, Liverpool and London, all the locations are new.
Now in its second year, Artist Rooms originated in 2008, when art dealer Anthony d’Offay gifted his imperious collection to the National Galleries of Scotland and the Tate for a fraction of its current value (£26.5 million instead of £125 million). His offer decreed that the works be arranged not by thematic exhibitions, but rather as artist rooms – to provide visitors with a sustained encounter of an individual artist’s work. This, along with the stipulation that the works be accessible to new audiences across the country, resulted in the Artist Rooms 2009 tour. The exhibitions proved successful, with 372 works reaching approximately eight million people nationally, more than 700,000 of whom were outside of London and Edinburgh. The 2010 tour should prove as popular.
Artist’s ‘missing’ landscapes
February 18, 2010 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
Paul Nash show reveals artist’s ‘missing’ landscapes
WOW!…
February 11, 2010 by Victoria Evans · Leave a Comment
What a busy few months its been, as you may know I have my own hairdressing and photography business and Christmas and January is the busiest time of the year for me so unfortunately I havent had time to do many new paintings.
Pastel Painting
February 10, 2010 by John Fiddes · Comments Off
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ong the skills and techniques you need to acquire for pastel painting are a feeling for how the pastel is going to behave on the paper, an understanding of how different tints work with each other, and most importantly, an innate understanding of color.
Exhibition at Tate
February 3, 2010 by John Fiddes · Leave a Comment
Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings are on show at Tate Britain in a major survey of the artist’s career that brings together over 45 paintings, as well as pencil drawings and watercolours from the mid 1990s to today. One of the most acclaimed British painters of his generation, Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and represented Great Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Ofili has built an international reputation with his works that bridge the sacred and the profane, popular culture and beliefs. His exuberant paintings are renowned for their rich layering and inventive use of media, including balls of elephant dung that punctuate the canvas and support them at their base, as well as glitter, resin, map pins and magazine cut-outs.
