Category: Art

I have written before about the innovative and attractively modern Art Gallery in Walsall built to house a collection of diverse and powerful range of pictures and sculptures. It is an interesting space – though I suspect rather under used. The latest exhibition (running until 31st May) is Jacob Epstein: Illustrations to the Old Testament. […]

Regular readers of  my blog will know of my interest and enthusiasm for art! One of the tasks of the removals people will be to safe guard a number of images that have become life enhancing for me on my spiritual journey. In St Mary’s Church some  years ago we embarked on the hanging of […]

On Monday I wrote about Terry Frost – and then came across this excellent Obit which is worth reading:   From The Times September 3, 2003 Sir Terry Frost Exuberant artist whose decades-long adventure in abstraction remained firmly grounded in a love of natural forms One of the best loved of British artists, Terry Frost […]

Packing up home is always an interesting combination of hell and liberation – amongst my clutter are soem lovely Frost images – do you know his work? Sir Terry Frost R.A  (born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost)  was an English artist noted for his abstracts. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire  England, in 1915, he did not […]

  After the war, Jones entered the Westminster School of Art, where he developed an interest in Post-Impressionism and studied under the English artist Walter Sickert, among other influential teachers. He also became increasingly attracted by Roman Catholicism, and in 1921 he converted, choosing “Michael” as his confirmation name.  It was probably the priest who […]

Mark Rothko (1903 -70) is widely celebrated as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century.  His paintings are famed for their visual intensity.  Shortly before his death, Rothko donated nine large-scale works to Tate on the condition that they would always be displayed together, in their own space, separate from the work of […]

Here is another wonderful discovery!!   Henry Cliffe 1919-1983 Born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. 1939-46 served army, met William Scott in Ruabon, Wales (Ordinance Section). 1946 enrolled as student BAA, studied lithography and painting until invited to join staff (married colleague Valerie May). Taught lithography full time, and gave technical advice to colleagues (see exhibition Corsham […]

A visit to catch up with some friends and be present at a wedding anniversary party gave me an opportunity to see the Roger Hilton exhibition (Swinging out into the void) at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge last week.  It lived up to all expectations.  Quite a stunning range of abstract paintings and drawings were gathered […]

Kettle’s Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge. Kettle’s Yard was originally the Cambridge home of Jim Ede and his wife Helen. Moving to Cambridge in 1956, they converted four small cottages into one idiosyncratic house and a place to display Ede’s collection of early 20th century art. Ede maintained an ‘open house’ […]

My friend Pauline Smith has introduced me to an artist whose work is very evocative. Alas I have only had the chance to see them via his web page – but look at these :     I love the energy and movement and perspective – who would have thought that black was such a versatile and […]

Here is a portrait of a very remarkable man with huge talent for shape, colour and representation.  His art is quite profound:   John Egerton Christmas Piper was a 20th century English painter and printmaker who lived for many years at Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames. By the late 1930’s he became less found of abstracts […]

Not a name for a new newspaper or charity or a headline but the name of a building at the heart of the regeneration of West Bromwich. It houses a public gallery as well as a theatre, recording studios, creative office space, event space and a cafe bar. The ambition is to provide a creative […]